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May 16, 1996 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð HOUSE H5275 Now, we have the analogy of politics active duty, retired just a few years bat Navy hero, 58-mission George Bush as war without blood. In every war ago in 1988, and was the squadron com- was sworn in. And that is what I titled monumental mistakes are made. The mander of the PT boats that took Gen- this piece, or our wonderful recorders nature of war is such that it is going to eral MacArthur off Corregidor. I point- that took the title from my words. It grind down and eat up, chew up, and ed out that in an otherwise beautiful says President Reagan commands us, abuse large numbers of people because funeral ceremony on Patriots' Day, remember our heroes, remember our it is an emergency and we cannot set April 19, the only sad note was that past. our own scenarios. We have to react to there were no Cabinet officers, no Vice Mr. Speaker, I read beautiful moving the enemy. There are a number of President. Bill Clinton had held the passages of President Reagan's words, things in the nature of war. That is wreath with Admiral Bulkeley at the then told some history about Admiral why the analogy that politics is war 50th anniversary of D-day, the Nor- Bulkely that was my tribute to him without blood is a bad analogy. mandy invasions to begin the day at and to George Cox, Sr. with George, Jr. We should not have to move in an at- dawn. watching. Then I got into Admiral mosphere of war. We should not have Together they held a wreath honor- Boorda's remarks. And then I read the to rally to meet a crisis that does not ing all those who died at sea, the Coast stunningly beautiful tribute to Admi- need to be created. Health care could Guardsmen driving the landing craft up ral Bulkely from his second son, an ac- be kept at some kind of rationale level. to the beach, the few naval craft as tive duty Navy captain, Peter Health care should be kept off the they secured the waters of the English Bulkeley, and my time ran out. So I table. Channel for the Allied forces that died, was going to come back at some point Yes, eventually, HMO's, profit mak- those that died leading up to it, those this week and finish reading, because I ing HMO's, may make money in health that died in secret operations in the promised Admiral Bulkeley's son and care. Eventually Wall Street may have months leading up to it where we lost his three daughters, beautiful daugh- stocks in the health care industry do hundreds of sailors and soldiers, and it ter-in-law, that I would read it word very well. But let us try to do that and was kept secret for 25 years. for word, it was that good. That is what I thought Ronald make capitalism and the profit motive That wreath was to commemorate all who were lost at sea, including those Reagan wanted us to do, as RON KLINK work for the benefit of the people. Let on the other side performed a moving us not allow the situation to get to- landing barges that were blown up by shore artillery and mortar fire sent out historical tribute to the people of Crete tally out of hand and a scorched earth and how it might have been the key by the Germans. At the funeral, which policy to leave us with ruins in our battle that, although lost, delayed Hit- I talked about here 6 days ago, I said health care system. ler's invasion of Russia and thereby that the first eulogy for Admiral Once we close a hospital, reopening it turned the course of history in World Bulkeley, this Medal of Honor winner, is almost impossible. Once we close War II. down certain kinds of facilities, we holder of two Distinguished Service So I was going to come back tonight cannot bring them back. And we must Crosses, Navy Cross, two Purple and finish Peter Bulkeley, Captain force those who are in place of deci- Hearts, two Silver Stars, French Croix Peter Bulkeley's tribute to his dad. sion-making and power to stop, listen, de Guerre. The first speaker was the And now I have to do that and a tribute and negotiate. CNO, the Chief of Naval Operations, to Mike Boorda. I have Mike's biog- Our demands in New York City are Jeremy Michael Boorda, Mike to his raphy in front of me. What a life. Just three basic demands. Freeze the situa- friends. on two pages. Bulkeley served 55 years. tion. Do not go any further. Disclose Mr. Speaker, I have in front of me Boorda served 40. Fibbed about his age. your plans. Let us see what is happen- the CONGRESSIONAL RECORD. How could The one time you can talk about fib- ing. And they negotiate. And this is a I or anyone have known that, while bing, downgrade the word from lie. pattern that I offer to the rest of the praising Admiral Boorda here at this When you are trying to wear the uni- country. very lectern on the leadership desk, form of your country and say you are that 6 days later he would be joining b 1845 older than you are, God must smile. Admiral Bulkeley in heaven? This is That is certainly not a venial sin. That It is your health care. This invasion phenomenal that our country is get- is a fib to serve your fellow man. He plan will roll right over you unless you ting hit with so many hammer blows of fibbed on his age in November 1938. He rally and guarantee that you are re- people dying. It must be tied into is my brother's age, 2 years older, specting and that your health care does something to do with what the Holy younger brother, and he joined in No- not become cannon fodder in this so- Father in Rome calls the culture of vember 1938. Was an enlisted man for 8 called war to remake America. death. years, excuse me, 6 years, and was a f I got through most of Admiral Navy petty officer first class. Attack Boorda's eulogy for Vice Admiral squadron 144, carrier airborne early TRIBUTE TO ADMIRAL BULKELEY Bulkeley, and I had the son of the ac- AND ADMIRAL BOORDA warning squadron 11. tual PT boat, signal boat commander, My older brother's son, a Navy lieu- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. PT 41, George Cox Jr., a late-in-life tenant commander who has served in SKEEN). Under the Speaker's an- child is, I guess, the way they say it, the gulf 30 or some combat missions in nounced policy of May 12, 1995, the gen- not the grandson but the direct of son one of these squadrons, he had all this tleman from California [Mr. DORNAN] is of George Cox, Ensign George Cox, who enlisted experience and was selected recognized for 60 minutes as the des- was actually at the helm of the PT for commissioning under the integra- ignee of the majority leader. boat when Admiral Bulkeley with the tion program in 1962, 34 years ago. I Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, those last of his two boats out of only six to will get to Mike Boorda's tribute in a that were watching the proceedings in begin with, when Manila, the Pearl minute, but let me tell you again what this Chamber earlier saw some brief 5- Harbor of Manila was December 8, Mike Boorda said about Admiral minute or shorter tributes to the Chief across the date line, when George Cox Bulkeley. Quoting myself, I finished of Naval Operations, the highest rank- was watching Junior, he is an LA of talking about SONNY MONTGOMERY, ing naval officer in the world up until CLAY SHAW of Florida, legislative as- SAM GIBBONS, World War II veterans in a few hours ago this afternoon when sistant. this House that had the only tribute to the early reports are telling us he took I opened with words of Ronald World War II other than about 10 or 15 his own life in the Chief of Naval Oper- Reagan that I used the next day when that I did, was a month after the war ations traditional officer's home, just a I was the graduation speaker at a beau- had passed its 50th anniversary. few blocks from here in the Navy Yard tiful traditional Catholic Christian col- I finished talking about them and I on the Anacostia River. lege in Front Royal out in the beau- said: Mr. Speaker, I just do not under- Mr. Speaker, I had been intending to tiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. I stand why people are not listening to come to the floor tonight to finish a talked about what Ronald Reagan had what Ronald Reagan said about talking tribute to Admiral John Duncan told us all to do in his goodbye words about history. So Admiral Boorda be- Bulkeley, who had served 55 years on on January 11, 1989, 9 days before com- gins his remarks. Mr. Speaker, this is H5276 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD Ð HOUSE May 16, 1996 his title of his tribute to Bulkeley on would like to do a tribute to Admiral duty of commander, Joint Task Force April 19, but I am saying it 6 days ago.