Sean Reyes: “I come this afternoon before this House as a voice of experience and as a voice of experience on two fronts: First, as a…”

“I come this afternoon before this House as a voice of experience and as a voice of experience on two fronts: First, as a former veteran that served in Vietnam, and to tell my colleagues that the resolution that we are considering this afternoon can have devastating impact on our troops. There was nothing that was more devastating to our morale in Vietnam than to have the kind of turmoil and the kinds of arguments during that unfortunate era for our country than to engage in the kinds of dialogue unfortunately that we are engaged in this afternoon all over again. The other point of experience that I raise this afternoon for my colleagues is one of the experience of having been in Bosnia in January and seeing the results of the presence of American troops having a very positive impact on the ability of that region to celebrate peace. I urge my colleagues to vote against resolution 227.”