Political Quotes

“Honor to Corporal Freddie Stowers April 24, 1991 Welcome to the White House. I salute the Vice President and Mrs. Quayle, and Secretary Cheney, other members of our Cabinet, General Vuono, distinguished Members of Congress who are with us today, and former Congressman Joe DioGuardi. I'm especially glad Joe's with us here today. To the former Medal of Honor recipients, I salute each and every one of you. To Georgiana Palmer and Mary Bowens--the sisters of today's honoree are with us, and don't they look lovely. We are just delighted. And a note of more than trivial passing: the honoree's great- grandnephew, Staff Sergeant Douglas Warren, of the 101st Airborne--he returned--he looks a little jet-lagged to me, but he returned just last night from Saudi Arabia. And I want to welcome you home. And we also--to do equal time to the Air Force, why, we salute you, Mr. Stowers, also back here. He's at Langley. So, it's a lovely day here, and we welcome each and every one of you to the White House. We want to honor a true hero, a man who makes us proud of our heritage as Americans, a man who, in life and death, helped keep America free. I speak of Corporal Freddie Stowers, to whom posthumously we present our highest military award for valor: the Medal of Honor. It's an award for bravery and conscience, the compendium we call character. Today, Corporal Freddie Stowers becomes the first black soldier honored with the Medal of Honor from World War I.…”