Senate Proceeding on Jun 6th, 2006 :: 0:53:04 to 0:59:09
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Sam Brownback: -- the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the president will be immediately notified of the senate tion action. and the senate will resume legislative session. a senator: mr. president?

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Johnny Isakson: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from georgia. mr. isakson: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to address the senate in morpg business. the presiding officer: without objection.

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Speech By: Johnny Isakson

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Johnny Isakson: mr. isakson: i thank the chair and i would like to call everybody's ateng to the special day today is. today is the sixth day of june. 62 years ago today on the shores of france and normandy, omaha beach,

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Johnny Isakson: american troops and allied forces invade ed france, pushed back the german army, pushed through the battle of the bulge, ultimately in germany and today you and i enjoy the freedom and liberty we

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Johnny Isakson: enjoy in this country, europe enjoys its freedom, in fact the world en enjoys its freedom because of what those brave men and women did. this past week i had a unique occasion to travel with the chairman

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Johnny Isakson: of the veterans' affairs committee, senator craig from idaho, and with general jack nicholson, who is the chairman of the american battle monuments commission. we traveled through europe and northern

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Johnny Isakson: africa, paying memorial day tribute ed toes teds ted es to the men and women buried on those shores. i have to till, it was a life- life-altering experience for meevment i have i am a patriotic american.

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Johnny Isakson: i love this country more than anything. i've teared up more than once at the funerals of a friend who died in service of this country. but i have never seen the out outpouring of love and respect for

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Johnny Isakson: our country or for our servicemen than i saw in the netherlands or in belgium or outside of paris or at bellawood outside of paris or at the american cemetery of northern africa. i think it is appropriate

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Johnny Isakson: for us to memorialize today what those of us who trald traveled on this trip sawvment hopefully to inspire all members of the senate and hopefully, mr. president, every american at one point in time

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Johnny Isakson: in their life to travel to these marvelous memorials. you know, i've been in elected office for most of the last 30 years. i've done more memorial day ceremonies than won one would want to count.

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Johnny Isakson: they've buenos aires beautiful, meaningful -- they have avenue all been beautiful, meaningful but they usually aren't well attended because americans take memorial day as a three of this day vacation

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Johnny Isakson: or three-day weekend. but i'd like to tell you what the people in the netherlands take memorial day as. when we went to the american cemetery in the message netherlands and saw the over 6 6,000 graves

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Johnny Isakson: of the american men and women who died in liberating the netherlands, we were moved. we were more moved by the fact that every one of those graves is adopted by a citizen of the netherlands that cares

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Johnny Isakson: for that grave, leaves flowers at that grave, and attended the sir moneys on america's memorial day day, which we conducted. mr. president, on that day in the netherlands there were over 7,000 citizens, 7,000

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Johnny Isakson: dutch who came to pay tribute to the men and women of the united states of america who died on their soil so they could be free. the royal dutch air force did a missing man flyover fore formation

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Johnny Isakson: and the senior men's choir of who will land sang "god bless america." it was a scene and a moving scene unlike anything i have personally ever seen. and it renewed for me the faith and the pride i have

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Johnny Isakson: in all that's good about the united states of america. following that visit we went to normandy. we saw the monument the french had erected to the rangers that stormed the senator man did i cliffs

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Johnny Isakson: and moved in and booed booted out the germans. we went to omaha beach and saw firsthand where the american troops came across, where the canadian troops came across, where the british troops came across.

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Johnny Isakson: we saw where in one day 2,000 2,500 men of america died on the beaches of normandy so that all of us could today live in freedom and in hope and in peace peace. i want to commend chairman craig

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Johnny Isakson: for taking this delegation. we founts found out we were the first delegation that anyone could remember towser do what we did. not only do i hope we are a not the last, i hope it is an annual occasion

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Johnny Isakson: where members of the senate go and pay their respects to the brave americans who died in the great wars of europe, world war i and world war world war iies world war, for without them we would

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Johnny Isakson: not enjoy what we do today nor would the world enjoy the peace, freedom, and literate liberty that it en enjoys and treasures. on this day of june 6, 2006, 62 years after 25 2,500 americans died

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Johnny Isakson: and tensions of thousands of americans pursued the german army in france, i know what i'll do tonight when i say my prayers prayers. i will u.a.e. i will say a special prayer for those folks that i

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Johnny Isakson: never knew. and i will say thanks. and i will repeat the pledge i made to myself on the cemetery of normandy. i said before i die, i'm going to see to it that my children and my grandchildren get

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Johnny Isakson: to visit this scene and have this experience because only through the preservation of the memory of what those men fought and died for will we as americans ever be able to continue to make the commitments

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Johnny Isakson: we have around the world to preserve liberty, preserve democracy, and protect the people and the world's right to determine their own future and their own peace and their own liberty. so, mr. president,

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Johnny Isakson: on this day june 6, 2006, i thank god for the men and women of the united states military, for the leadership of the 20th century century, and pray that all of us will have the courage they had to preserve

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Jim DeMint: the liberty we all treasure and enjoy. and i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate will resume consideration of of s.j. resolution 1, which the clerk will report.