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Joe Manchin: “I must add, as a former Navy person and from a Navy family of generations, that's the most humiliating thing that I have…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 2016
I must add, as a former Navy person and from a Navy family of generations, that's the most humiliating thing that I have seen that American sailors, members of the United States Navy, has been subjected to in my or their lifetime.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Expressing humiliation over the treatment of American sailors by Iran.

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