In the Context of Her Present Deployment Which Sarted in February, the Prairial, Which

ESCALE DU PRAIRIAL 5 AVRIL 2007 SERIOUSLY WE ARE VERY PLEASED TO RECEIVE YOU AND TO WELCOME THE PRAIRIAL IN SAN LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, FRANCISCO FOR HER SECOND VISIT IN TWO DEAR COLLEAGUES FROM THE CONSULAR YEARS. CORPS, DEAR FRIENDS, I WOULD LIKE TO RECOGNISE THE PRESENCE OF THE HIGH RANKING OFFICERS FROM THE US IT IS A GREAT PLEASURE FOR US TO RECEIVE COAST GUARD AND THE US NAVY – WE ALSO YOU ALL ON BOARD FRENCH FRIGATE LE HAVE AN OFFICER FROM THE COLOMBIAN NAVY PRAIRIAL. - AND EXPRESS TO THEM OUR APPRECIATION NOT ONLY FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION TO THIS I WAS IN PARIS THIS MORNING AND CAME OFF RECEPTION AND CEREMONY TONIGHT BUT ALSO THE PLANE THIS AFTERNOON AFTER A COUPLE FOR THE VALUED COOPERATION THAT THEY OF DAYS IN FRANCE WHERE I ACCOMPANIED HAVE EXTENDED TO OUR SHIP. THE SPEAKER OF THE CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY FABIAN NUNEZ AND HIS I WOULD LIKE ALSO TO THANK CAPITAINE DE DELEGATION IN THEIR STUDY VISIT ABOUT FREGATE DE RUPILLY AND HIS ENTIRE CREW TRAIN AND HIGH SPEED RAIL. FOR THEIR HOSPITALITY.

YOU PROBABLY HAVE HEARD THAT THE THE FRENCH NAVY IS ACTIVE IN THE PACIFIC FRENCH TGV, THE HIGH SPEED TRAIN, SET A OCEAN IN ORDER TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE NEW WORLD SPEED RECORD AT 574 PROTECTION OF OUR INTERESTS AND THE KILOMETERS PER HOUR AND ON THIS TRAIN PRAIRIAL IS A MAJOR COMPONENT IN THIS THAT BROKE THE RECORD WAS FIONA MA THE TASK. ASSEMBLYWOMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO. SHE WAS ONE OF THE VERY HAPPY FEWS. IN THE COURSE OF HER PRESENT DEPLOYMENT WHICH STARTED LAST MONTH, THE PRAIRIAL, SO AFTER THE TRAIN AND THE PLANE I AM WHICH IS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE HAPPY TO COMPLETE MY JOURNEY WITH THE STATIONED IN PAPEETE, HAS BEEN AND WILL BOAT. CONTINUE TO BE ACTIVE IN HER MISSION OF CONTROLLING AND PREVENTING SMUGGLING, TRAFFICKING AND ILLEGAL FISHING, AMONG ALLIANCE SINCE WE SHALL COMMEMORATE OTHERS. IT IS ALSO A MISSION THAT IS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THE 250 TH PERFORMED BY FRENCH FRIGATES IN THE ANNIVERSAY OF HIS BIRTH AND HIS DECISIVE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND IN THE CARRIBBEAN SEA CONTRIBUTION TO THE BIRTH OF THE UNITED AND IT IS VERY OFTEN PERFORMED IN STATES THANKS TO THE BRAVERY OF HIS COORDINATION WITH THE US NAVY AND COAST SOLDIERS. GUARD. DURING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY THE SAME THESE MISSIONS ARE ONLY BUT ONE BRAVERY, THAT OF THE ALLIED TROOPS WHICH ILLUSTRATION OF THE CLOSE COOPERATION CAME TWICE TO OUR RESCUE, HELPED FRANCE THAT EXISTS BETWEEN OUR TWO NAVIES AND REGAIN ITS LIBERTY AND ITS DIGNITY. OUR TWO ARMED FORCES. IT IS EXAMPLIFIED IN MANY AREAS AND ON MANY GROUNDS SINCE FRANCE WILL NEVER FORGET THE COURAGE, OUR TROOPS ARE TOGETHER ENGAGED AND THE SACRIFICE OF THOUSANDS OF YOUNG OUR TWO COUNTRIES TOGETHER COMMITTED AMERICAN MEN AND WOMEN WHO FOUGHT FOR TO SECURITY FROM AFGHANISTAN TO THE HER DURING THE TWO WORLD WARS. BALKANS, FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO AFRICA. AMONG THOSE SOLDIERS, THERE WAS A YOUNG LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, MAN BORN IN DETROIT, MICHIGAN, NOW A FIFTY YEAR SAN FRANCISCO RESIDENT. HIS SUCH COOPERATION BETWEEN OUR TWO NAME IS JOHN OROFINO, HE IS WITH US COUNTRIES IS THE PROOF OF OUR TONIGHT AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH LONGSTANDING ALLIANCE. REPUBLIC HAS DECIDED TO AWARD HIM WITH THE LEGION OF HONOR. THIS SOLIDARITY, THIS BROTHERHOOD IN ARMS WAS FORGED MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES AGO THE NATIONAL ORDER OF THE LEGION OF WHEN LAFAYETTE AND HIS TROOPS CAME TO HONOR WAS ESTABLISHED BY NAPOLEON IN HELP ACHIEVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE’S 1802 IN ORDER TO RECOGNISE EXCEPTIONAL ASPIRATION FOR LIBERTY AND INDEPENDENCE. MERIT OR BRAVERY. NAPOLEON ONCE SAID : NEXT SEPTEMBER, WE SHALL HAVE THE ‘’ON NE PEUT PAS FAIRE SEMBLANT D’ETRE OPPORTUNITY TO CELEBRATE OUR HISTORICAL COURAGEUX’’, THAT IS ‘’COURAGE IS SOMETHING YOU CANNOT FAKE’’. SO ALLOW AND THIS RESULTED IN HEAVY FIRE AND TO ME TO STRESS TONIGHT THAT JOHN OROFINO THE KILLING OF MANY OF YOUR COMRADES. DISPLAYED AN EXTRAORDINARY LEVEL OF YOU TOOK COMMAND AFTER THE DEATH OF COURAGE DURING THE MILITARY OPERATIONS YOUR TWO LIEUTENANTS AND SAVED THE IN EASTERN FRANCE IN AUGUST AND LIVES OF YOUR FELLOW TROOPERS, MANY OF SEPTEMBER 1944. THEM BEING WOUNDED, DESPITE THE CONTINUATION OF THE COMBATS. DEAR JOHN OROFINO, IN THESE EXTREMELY DANGEROUS YOU JOINED THE ARMY AT THE AGE OF 20. CIRCUMSTANCES, YOUR SENSE OF SOLIDARITY, AFTER TRAINING AT CAMP GORDON, GEORGIA, YOUR DEVOTION TO YOUR COMRADES ALLIED YOU CROSSED THE ATLANTIC TO REACH WITH YOUR COURAGE, DETERMINATION AND LIVERPOOL. THIS WAS IN JUNE 1944. ONE MONTH SPIRIT OF LEADERSHIP NOT ONLY SAVED THEIR LATER YOU WERE IN VERDUN – THE LIVES BUT CONTRIBUTED TO THESUCCESFUL BATTLEGROUND WHERE THE BLOODIEST OUTCOME OF THE OPERATIONS THAT COMBATS OF WORLD WAR I HAVE OCCURED – EVENTUALLY LED TO THE LIBERATION OF THE AND YOU WERE ORDERED TO MOVE EASTWARD. CITY. YOU WERE A SERGEANT IN THE 3 RD CAVALRY RECONNAISSANCE SQUADRON AND YOUR YOU WERE YOURSELF WOUNDED, TAKEN TO A MISSION WAS TO REPORT ENNEMY POSITIONS FIELD HOSPITAL AND LATER FLOWN TO THE US. AND MOVEMENTS, TO ASSESS THE SITUATION DURING ALL THESE TIMES YOU HAD UNDER AND TO CONVEY THESE CRUCIAL YOUR HELMET THIS LITTLE FRENCH FLAG THAT INFORMATIONS TO THE THIRD ARMY UNDER A YOUNG FRENCH GIRL HAD GIVEN YOU AND GENERAL PATTON WITH THE AIM TO HELP THAT YOUR FRIEND MS MARX JUST GAVE ME SHAPING HIS PLANS FOR THE LIBERATION OF THE CITY OF THIONVILLE. DEAR JOHN OROFINO, FOR YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING WORLD DURING THIS MISSION, A DANGEROUS ONE WAR II, YOU WERE AWARDED THE SILVER STAR SINCE YOU WERE AS FAR AS 80 MILES BEHIND AND THE PURPLE HEART. NOW IT IS OUR TURN ENEMY LINES, YOUR PLATOON, THE FIRST TO EXPRESS OUR ADMIRATION AND WARMEST PLATOON, ENCOUNTERED GERMAN TROOPS THANKS. THE MEDAL THAT I WILL HAVE THE PLEASURE TO PRESENT TO YOU IN A FEW I KNOW THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THIS MINUTES COMES AS A TESTIMONY TO OUR HONOR WITH YOUR FELLOW MEMBERS OF THE 3 GRATITUDE FOR YOUR BRAVERY AND FOR RD CAVALRY SQUADRON. YOUR ROLE IN THE LIBERATION OF FRANCE. JOHN OROFINO, AU NOM DU PRESIDENT DE LA IT IS ALSO A SIGN OF OUR APPRECIATION FOR REPUBLIQUE, NOUS VOUS REMETTONS LES YOUR CONTINUED COMMITMENT TO THE INSIGNES DE CHEVALIER DE L’ORDRE SERVICE OF OTHERS AND TO THE VALUES OF NATIONAL DE LA LEGION D’HONNEUR. FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS. BECAUSE AFTER RETURNING TO CIVILIAN LIFE YOU PUT THESE PRINCIPLES AT THE SERVICE OF THE COMMUNITY AND OF THE FUTURE GENERATIONS. AFTER WORKING FOR THE DETROIT DEPARTMENT OF WELFARE YOU BEGAN A DISTINGUISHED CAREER OF TEACHER, FIRST IN DETROIT, THEN IN SAN FRANCISCO WHERE YOU SERVED IN SEVERAL PUBLIC SCHOOLS, TEACHING TO THE CHILDREN THE VALUES OF TOLERANCE AND DEMOCRACY. THE SAME VALUES THAT YOU FOUGHT FOR ON OUR SOIL SIXTY YEARS AGO AND THAT YOU HELPED MAKE PREVAIL.

THEREFORE, IT IS MY PRIVILEGE TO BE THE INTERPRETER OF THE GRATITUDE OF MY COUNTRY, ABOARD ONE OF HER SHIPS AND IN PRESENCE OF YOUR WIFE PEGGY, YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS, BEFORE FRENCH AND AMERICAN SAILORS AND BEFORE OUR DISTINGUISHED GUESTS.