May 24, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S7401 250th birthday of James Madison and land of Okinawa, he introduced it there A RETROSPECT OF V-E DAY honoring his many accomplishments. in 1910 and was the first master of the The surcharges raised from the selling Okinawan Karate-Do system. Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, an of the coins goes to the National Trust In 1956, for the first time, American issue of the journal entitled Uniformed for Historic Preservation for the cre- servicemen were accepted as students Services Journal, May-June 1995, con- ation of a permanent fund for the pres- in the Okinawan Karate-Do schools. tains an article entitled, ‘‘World War II ervation and renovation of Madison’s One of them settled in the Boston area Revisited: A Retrospect Of V-E Day home, Montpelier. after his military discharge and began and the Events Leading Up To It.’’ This is an important endeavor, Mr. teaching this art form to people in the The article includes recollections of President, because James Madison is area. Walter Mattson of Framingham, some of the distinguished Members of one of our nation’s most brilliant and MA, is the senior American instructor. the Congress who participated in World significant founding fathers. A Vir- Over the years, there has been a con- War II, among them Senator STROM ginian and a distinguished statesman, tinuing cultural exchange between the THURMOND, Senator BOB DOLE, Senator Madison was the principle drafter of Masters on Okinawa and practitioners DANIEL INOUYE, Congressmen TOM BE- the United States Constitution and the here in North America. Mr. Mattson is VILL, SAM GIBBONS, SONNY MONT- Bill of Rights. He served his country as primarily responsible for this 35-year GOMERY, and others. the fourth President the United States. exchange program. This summer, Sen- It is an excellent reminiscence of His home, Montpelier, is located in ior Instructor Peter McCrae from their experiences and their views about Orange County, Virginia, not far from Plymouth, MA, will be studying on the significance of V-E Day and their his friend Thomas Jefferson’s Monti- Okinawa with Master Shintoku personal involvement in the events cello. Takara. leading up to that occasion. Many Americans have found in Oki- It is extremely important, Mr. Presi- I ask unanimous consent that a copy dent, that we act today to both honor nawan Karate-Do a physical and men- tal discipline which promotes positive of the article from the Uniformed Serv- James Madison’s 250th birthday and to ices Journal be printed in the RECORD. create a permanent fund for the preser- attitudes, good health, and self-mas- vation of Montpelier. Doing so will en- tery. Our young people have found in it There being no objection, the article sure that Madison’s legacy is sustained an alternative to the streets and, in its was ordered to be printed in the instructors, positive role models. We for future generations of the great na- RECORD, as follows: are grateful for this Japanese import tion he helped create. WORLD WAR II REVISITED: A RETROSPECT OF I urge my colleagues to support this and we hope that this positive ex- change between our two countries con- V–E DAY AND THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO IT important legislation. tinues for many years.∑ (By Cathy Lumsden) f f World War II (WW II) represents many HONORING SOUTHEAST GUILFORD WILMER JONES-HAM RECEIVES things to many people. It represents sac- HIGH SCHOOL rifice, freedom and hope for a better tomor- MAHALIA JACKSON AWARD ∑ Mr. FAIRCLOTH. Mr. President, it is row. The road to freedom was paved with ∑ Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I would death and destruction. Many of you are fa- a pleasure and a privilege for me to rise like to recognize the recent achieve- miliar with Jim Pennington’s stories of WW today on the floor of the Senate to ment of Wilmer Jones-Ham. On April 1, II at retiree recognition programs, chapter honor the accomplishments of South- 1995 she received the Mahalia Jackson events and in the USJ, some more than once. east Guilford High School. This group award for community service. Wilmer But these stories and memories that follow are more than just stories. In today’s cli- of young people and educator from Jones-Ham is a dedicated woman who Greensboro, NC, made it to the na- mate of historical revisionism and political commits great energy to develop a correctness, they remain as one of the few tional finals in the recent 1995, ‘‘We sense of hope in youth, the under or un- The People . . . The Citizen and the accurate eye-witness accounts of the making employed, and homeless in the Saginaw of American history in the Great War that Constitution’’ national competition community. She is the founder of the literally saved the world. We cannot forget held in Washington, DC, April 29–May Saginaw Soul Children’s Choir, the why we fought WWII, ‘‘the war to end all 1. These outstanding young people Saginaw Interdenominational Gospel wars’’ or the men and women who fought the competed against 49 other classes from Music Workshop, and the First Mayor’s war. The thoughts and feelings that follow throughout the Nation and dem- Scholarship Black and Gold Ball. She are real. Take the time to read and under- onstrated a remarkable understanding stand the contributions these Americans has been a teacher for more than 17 made in the fight for freedom. of the fundamental ideals and values of years and developed an after school American constitutional government. program at her home to help students SENATOR STROM THURMOND The accomplishments of Christine who need additional instruction in Sen. Thurmond was serving as a Circuit Youmans, educator, and students Lau- their subjects. It is my honor to con- Judge in his home state when war was de- rie Camp, Ivan Canada, Keith gratulate and thank her for all her ac- clared on Germany. On that day, he called Cockerham, Kamyra Crawford, Joshua complishments.∑ President Roosevelt and volunteered, even Curtiss, Crystal Delgado, Matthew Ful- though he was exempted from service. Ap- f ton, Terri Galinski, Kristin Gerner, Al- proximately a year later in 1943, LTC Thur- lison Gillus, Brent Gonet, Andrew APPOINTMENTS BY MAJORITY mond, USA was a member of the 82nd Air- Hamilton, Toby Kennedy, Jennifer Lee, AND MINORITY LEADERS borne Division assigned to First Army Head- quarters in Europe. He is the only Senator Sara Manning, Brandon McGinnis, Jen- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The still serving in Congress who participated in nifer Michael, Hope Moorman, Lanae Chair, on behalf of the Majority and the Normandy Invasion on D–Day. Muse, Daniele Neese, Megan Randall, Minority Leaders of the Senate and the He was one of three men who volunteered Aisha Rawlins, Christy Shaffer, Speaker and Minority Leader of the to land in Normandy aboard a glider. The Zachary Smith, and Mary Sullivan, are House of Representatives, pursuant to fire was so heavy that his glider was forced appreciated by myself and their home Public Law 104–1, announces the joint to go north to find a safer spot to land. In- State of North Carolina.∑ appointment of the following individ- stead of it getting safer, it got worse. The f uals as members of the Board of Direc- glider landed in an apple orchard nearby. He tors of the Office of Compliance: Glen was injured in the landing in the forehead, OKINAWAN KARATE-DO IN D. Nager, of Washington, D.C., for a hand and knee. However, LTC Thurmond MASSACHUSETTS term of 5 years and to serve as Chair; still joined the rest of the forces in the sub- ∑ Mr. KERRY. Mr. President, Massa- sequent battles of the Invasion. LTC Thur- Virginia A. Seitz, of Washington, D.C., mond would have preferred to have jumped chusetts is proud to be home to the for a term of 5 years; Jerry M. Hunter, but there wasn’t sufficient time to train for North American Okinawan Karate-Do of Missouri, for a term of 4 years; the jump. After the invasion, he returned to Association. Early in this century, James N. Adler, of California, for a Army Headquarters just as his unit got Kanbum Uechi studied this ancient art term of 4 years; and Lawrence Z. ready to go into St-Lo and into Paris. on the mainland of China where it was Lorber, of Washington, D.C., for a term On V–E Day, LTC Thurmond was in Leip- first developed. Returning to his home- of 3 years. zig, Germany when he learned of the end of

VerDate Aug 31 2005 05:09 May 28, 2008 Jkt 041999 PO 00000 Frm 00121 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 J:\ODA15\1995_F~1\S24MY5.REC S24MY5 mmaher on MIKETEMP with SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS S7402 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE May 24, 1995 the war in Europe. He and his unit were dis- left, now had 11 capable of carrying a weap- sion. He chose to remember V–E Day like appointed that they were not allowed to take on—and that included me.’’ Lt. Inouye con- this: Berlin and had to let the Russians take it. sidered himself lucky thanks to two silver ‘‘V–E Day was a beautiful, sunny day. The LTC Thurmond was one of the men who un- dollars that he carried through every cam- weather was warm where I was in Paris and covered and helped liberate Buchenwald Con- paign. One was bent and the other cracked everyone was absolutely jubliant. I actually centration Camp. He paints a grim picture of almost in two from the impact of a German drove my jeep down the Champs-Elysees and what he saw. ‘‘I have never seen anything bullet in France. (Sen. Inouye served in both weaved in and out of people dancing there. I like it in my life. Bodies stacked up like cord France and Italy.) He carried them in his saw V–E Day at the best time, from the best wood, eight to ten feet high, those who had breast pocket but on the night of April 20, place.’’ died and those who were still living . . . 1945, lost them. Despite his better judgment, CONGRESSMAN ‘‘SONNY’’ MONTGOMERY (D-3RD- They killed them in one of three ways; by he could not shake the fear that something MS) starving them to death with one bowl of thin was about to happen. I served in the European Theatre during pea soup per day . . . inducing them to climb At first light (April 21, 1945), his unit (E WW II. I was a Second Lieutenant with the a fence to get out, where they were shot . . . Company) jumped. E Company’s objective 12th Armored Division which arrived in or they (the prisoners) were told to go into a was Colle Musatello, a high and heavily de- big booth like a telephone booth and wait fended ridge. Lt. Inouye’s Company managed France in November, 1944. We were assigned until the SS guards came in . . . they (pris- to make it within 40 yards of the German to the Seventh Army part of the time and oners) would go into the front of the booth bunkers then almost at once three machine with the Third Army part of the time as we and the SS Guards would go into the back of guns opened up at them. He took a hit in the drove through France and Germany. We were the booth and hit them with a mallet and stomach but still continued to fight. Finally in heavy combat during the fall and winter smash their heads and kill them . . . The he was close enough to pull the pin on the of 1944 and 1945. The toughest battle was wife of the Commander was particularly last grenade. ‘‘As I drew my arm back, a Ger- against well-entrenched German forces at cruel, she would take the skin from anyone man stood waist-high in the bunker. He was Herlisheim on January 9–10, 1945. We lost a who had tatoos to make lamp shades . . .’’ aiming a rifle grenade at me from a range of number of tanks in the fighting there, but Sen. Thurmond was selected to go on to the ten yards. And then as I cocked my arm to we held back a German counterattack and fi- Pacific. He went to Fort Jackson, SC for a throw, he fired, and the grenade smashed nally broke through enemy defenses. The month, then by train to California and then into my right elbow. It exploded and all but German resistance began to break up after on to the Philippines. LTC Thurmond was in tore my arm off . . . The German was reload- that and we then moved at a rapid pace to- the Philippines when the war ended. He cap- ing his rifle, but my grenade blew up in his ward the Rhine River. Another significant tured a number of Japanese troops. He re- face. I stumbled to my feet, closing on the event occurred in April when elements of the turned to Fort Bragg, NC and was called bunker, firing my tommy gun lefthanded, Twelfth Armored Division captured the back to the Supreme Court of South Caro- the useless right arm slapping red and wet bridge over the Danube River at Dillingen lina. Sen. Thurmond was awarded five Battle against my side . . . a bullet caught me in before German demolition men could wreck Stars with the 82nd Airborne Division. For the right leg. The German resistance in our it. Securing that bridge provided a vital ar- his military service, he earned 18 decora- sector ended April 23. Nine days later, the tery for Allied troops to flood into southern tions, and awards, including the Legion of war in Italy was over, and a week after that Germany and helped speed up our efforts to Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster, Purple Heart, the enemy surrendered unconditionally.’’ end the war. Bronze Star for Valor, Belgian Order of the Senator Inouye was awarded the Distin- We helped liberate a number of concentra- Crown and the French Croix de Guerre. guished Service Cross, the Purple Heart with tion camps in Germany as the war neared its end. We drove past hundreds of freed Jewish SENATOR BOB DOLE (R-KS) Oak Leaf Cluster and the Bronze Star. prisoners walking and sometimes stumbling, CONGRESSMAN TOM BEVILL (D-4TH-AL) Senator Dole shares his thoughts on WW II along the road. The sight of these and V–E Day, we should take a moment to Last year, I participated in the commemo- improverished people in their tattered remember America’s place in the world. ration of the 50th Anniversary of the D-Day clothes is something even the most hardened When I witnessed the emotion of those gath- Invasion on the coast of Normandy, France. soldiers can never forget. I was in southern ered on the beaches of France last summer, The men who participated in that invasion Germany when I heard the Armed Forces memories came flooding back—memories of will always be remembered for their her- Radio broadcast that the war in Europe had heroism, sacrifice and the pain men and oism. It brought back many memories for ended, but I had little time to celebrate. I women suffered. We must never be reluctant me, although I was not part of the initial in- got orders a week later to go to the Pacific about our greatness as a country—nor vasion. As a new Army Second Lieutenant, I theater and prepare for the invasion of ashamed of our national strength. There is was sent to England in late February of 1944, Japan. That invasion, of course, was averted one responsibility only the federal govern- less than four months before D-Day. I was in when we dropped the atomic bombs on Hiro- ment has, and that is to protect our freedom. a staging area with the 5th Armored Divi- shima and Nagasaki. We must stop placing the agenda of the sion, where I assisted in drilling the troops RADM EUGENE B. FLUCKEY (USN-RET.) United Nations before the interest of the who were in the first wave to storm the coast United States. Let us remember that Amer- of Normandy. At night we would load the Rear Admiral Fluckey, author of Thunder ica has been the greatest force for good the troops on ships with their rifles and ammu- Below was Commanding Officer of the sub- world has ever known. Before visiting France nition and send them out under cover of marine USS Barb. He received the Medal of last year, I was in Northern Italy where I darkness. They did not know where they Honor and four Navy Crosses and is a veteran served in the Tenth Mountain Division 50 were going. They would land somewhere of eleven war patrols during WW II. RADM years before. While revisiting the battle along the coast of Normandy. I remember Fluckey is credited with the most tonnage sites, I thought about why we had been sent how anxious the troops were. I realized it sunk by a U.S. skipper in WW II, seventeen there, about the America we were risking was no drill the day we issued emergency ra- ships including a carrier, raider-carrier and a our lives to protect and about the hopes for tions to the troops. Suddenly, they were pro- frigate. He is proudest of the fact that no one the generations to follow. As we open the vided kits with a several days’ supply of attached to the Barb received the Purple door to another century, we can celebrate chocolate bars, cigarettes and K-rations. We Heart and that the sub came back ready and the fact that the world is a safer, freer place had never done that before. And, that’s how eager to fight again. In the Atlantic, he because of American leadership. We must we knew it was the real thing. I will never chased German submarines but his biggest continue to do what we have always done think of myself as a war hero. I am not. That contributions were in the Pacific theatre. best—leading by example. honor goes to men like my colleague, Con- His contributions there will be highlighted Senator Dole was a Platoon Leader with gressman Sam Gibbons of Florida, who in the upcoming V–J issue of the USI. the legendary Tenth Mountain Division. Cpt. parachuted behind the German lines on D- CORPORAL CHASE FIELDING (USA), FORMER POW Dole was injured while serving in Northern Day. That honor goes to men like the late CPL Fielding arrived in Normandy on D+7 Italy on April 14, 1945. He was awarded two Congressman Bill Nichols of Alabama who as part of the 29th Division going in to re- Purple Hearts and one Bronze Star with Oak lost a leg in WW II. That honor goes to Trav- place the 13th Airborne Division. They made Leaf Cluster. is Alvis, my childhood friend from Townley, it up to St-Lo which was later leveled by the SENATOR DANIEL INOUYE (D-HI) who was killed in the D-Day Invasion. That Air Corps. Three days later, he was only one Sen Inouye was awarded a battlefield com- honor goes to many, many others who of three men remaining in his platoon, and mission in Italy as a Second Lieutenant in stormed the beaches of Normandy in the was taken prisoner on June 30, 1944. Under the United States Army. This occurred just name of freedom and democracy. American artillery fire, he along with two as his unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat CONGRESSMAN SAM GIBBONS (D-11TH-FL) others were taken to Stalag XII A on the Team left to rescue ‘‘The Lost Battalion’’ of Congressman Gibbons served in WWII as an outskirts of Limsburg. ‘‘We were fed bread the 141st Infantry. It had been surrounded Army Captain in the 501st Parachute Infan- and soup, bread and tea in the morning and and was desperately short of supplies and try of the 101st Airborne. Gibbons was a water soup the next two meals.... Our ammunition.Two days later he left to join member of the initial assault force which in- meat consisted of worms which somehow got his outfit. By the time he reached them, the vaded Normandy on D-Day. He is the only in the soup.’’ We traveled by train for five bloody battle of The Lost Battalion was Member of the House of Representatives days and five nights, forty to fifty men in a over. ‘‘My platoon, numbering 20 men when I serving today who participated in the Inva- small boxcar. We were let out only twice to

VerDate Aug 31 2005 05:09 May 28, 2008 Jkt 041999 PO 00000 Frm 00122 Fmt 0624 Sfmt 0634 J:\ODA15\1995_F~1\S24MY5.REC S24MY5 mmaher on MIKETEMP with SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS May 24, 1995 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — SENATE S7403 perform our toilets. Ate, slept and excreted his ship (APA) Joseph Dickman was part of consideration of S. Con. Res. 13, the in the same place. It was suffocatingly hot a secret U.S. Navy convoy ‘‘William Sail concurrent budget resolution. during the day, and with little ventilation 12X’’ approaching Cape Town South Africa. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without and sometimes without water for thirty-six His ship returned to the United States on objection, it is so ordered. hours, quite a few passed out. February 28, 1942 after having been diverted Upon arrival in Limsburg, we had our first to India. His ship then became involved in Mr. COCHRAN. I now ask unanimous bath since the middle of July. We left Stalag the Battle of the Atlantic, surviving a tor- consent that the first vote tomorrow XII A on August 24 and arrived at 4–B pedo attack May 15, 1942. Captain Walsh was morning at 9 a.m. be 20 minutes in (Muhlburg) on August 26 and were put into assigned to the staff of Commander, U.S. length, and the remaining votes in the barracks. ‘‘The camp was like heaven com- Naval Forces, Europe in the Planning and sequence be limited as under the terms pared to the others.... I met a member of Logistics Section. He was assigned to the of today’s sequence of votes on the Tito’s band, age 15, and (who had been) planning for Operation Overlord and Phase wounded twice. There was a kid there, a ma- budget. Neptune and the logistics requirement for The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without chine-gunner, who was only eleven years Cherbourg and LeHavre. He organized, old.... The Russians were treated horribly. trained and commanded U.S. Navy Task Unit objection, it is so ordered. In some Russian barracks cannibalism had 127.2.8 which landed over Beach Utah at- f occurred. They were like sticks, and when tached to the 7th Corps, U.S. Army. ‘‘My too weak to move were thrown in a lime Task Unit 127.2.8 (from June 26—June 29, PROGRAM pit.... One huge field there was fertilized 1944): with 10,000 bodies of Jews.’’ On September 1. Cleaned out the last resistance in the Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, for the 14th, CPL Fielding moved out as part of a Arsenal. information of all Senators, there will working party. He passed through Dresden 2. Plotted and delivered the mine fields in on the 15th and entered Sudatenland that be a rollcall vote at 9 a.m. on the re- the harbor to the British mine sweepers off scissions conference report. Imme- night. On the 16th, the working party was the port. housed at Falkensaw where it worked in coal 3. Established United States Navy Head- diately following that vote, the Senate mines. CPL Fielding went on his first sick quarters, Cherbourg. will resume consideration of the budget call on October 6th due to boils. He was We had to have Cherbourg to sustain the resolution and will begin a series of treated by a Serbian doctor in the Russian invasion (Normandy) and the Germans knew rollcall votes on or in relation to re- compound. A week and a half later, he devel- it.’’ Task Unit 127.2.8 entered Cherbourg by maining amendments to the budget. oped an abscess and underwent surgery. A going over the top of Fort duRoule with the hole the size of an egg was left by a French 79th Division on June 26, 1944. Subsequently, f surgeon purposely to keep him out of the he led a heavily-armed unit, equipped with mines for awhile. Mr. Fielding’s health wors- submachine guns, hand grenades and bazoo- RECESS UNTIL 9 A.M. TOMORROW ened in November because of another ab- kas the cleaned out the last resistance in the Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, if scess, swollen tonsils and diphtheria. Cherbourg Arsenal, established U.S. Navy Later an abscess was removed from the Headquarters in Cherbourg, and, by interro- there is no further business to come be- back of his head simply by cutting his head gating slave laborers, Free French and Ger- fore the Senate, I now ask unanimous open without any painkiller. About a month man prisoners, obtained and plotted the consent that the Senate stand in recess later, he was returned to the commando and mine fields in Cherbourg harbor. Captain under the previous order. also to work in the mines. Rumors that Walsh carried out the reconnaissance of There being no objection, the Senate, Americans were coming closer began in ports in Brittany from St. Malo to Brest at- April. Late in April, CPL Fielding and sev- at 8:42 p.m., recessed until Thursday, tached to Patton’s Third Army, 8th Corps, May 25, 1995, at 9 a.m. eral other prisoners escaped and hid in a until ordered to carry out the reconnais- bomb shelter. He headed due west. The woods sance of LeHavre with the First Canadian f were full of Germans. Picking up informa- Army on September 12, 1944. Captain Walsh tion of SS troop movements, the group was considers his three most important contribu- NOMINATIONS able to avoid the SS. On April 27th (officially tions to the Invasion of Normandy as; U.S. the 28th) they reached a Yank outpost. CPL Navy Task Unit 127.2.8, the capture of Ger- Executive nominations received by Fielding later learned that those prisoners man mine fields, Cherbourg and the capture the Senate May 24, 1995: who stayed behind were the last to be liber- of Fort duHomet. DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY ated in Europe and when found were in such These are just of few of the brave men who a state that many could hardly walk. A great LINDA LEE ROBERTSON, OF OKLAHOMA, TO BE A DEP- along with women saved the world. Without UTY UNDER SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY, VICE MI- many had died. them and others like them, democracy as we CHAEL B. LEVY, RESIGNED. CAPT FRANK X. RILEY (USCG-RET.) know it, would not exist. We thank them for IN THE MARINE CORPS Captain Riley graduated from the Coast their heroism and salute them one and all. THE FOLLOWING-NAMED AIR FORCE ACADEMY GRAD- Guard Academy on June 19, 1942. He was as- f UATES FOR PERMANENT APPOINTMENT TO THE GRADE signed as Executive Officer on LCI 323 which OF SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE U.S. MARINE CORPS, was designated as Task Force Command Ship ORDERS FOR THURSDAY, MAY 25, PURSUANT TO TITLE 10, U.S. CODE, SECTION 541: (TFCS) and was the first LCI to leave the 1995 MARINE CORPS States. He served aboard the LCI off the Mr. COCHRAN. Mr. President, I ask To be second lieutenant North African, Italian and Sicilian coasts; as unanimous consent that when the Sen- CHRISTIAN R. FITZPATRICK, 000–00–0000 Commanding Officer of the vessel, he partici- DARREN M. HAMILTON, 000–00–0000 pated in the Normandy Invasion. During the ate completes its business today, it RUSSELL L. HICKS, 000–00–0000 Invasion at Normandy. Captain Riley re- stand in recess until the hour of 9 a.m. NATHAN M. MILLER, 000–00–0000 members that two hundred troops were load- on Thursday, May 25, 1995; that fol- THE FOLLOWING-NAMED U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY GRADUATE FOR PERMANENT APPOINTMENT TO THE ed in the troop compartment. His ship, a sal- lowing the prayer, the Journal of pro- GRADE OF SECOND LIEUTENANT IN THE U.S. MARINE vage vessel saved the lives of 1500 Army per- ceedings be deemed approved to date, CORPS, PURSUANT TO TITLE 10, U.S. CODE, SECTION 541 sonnel and salvaged 30 Landing Craft Per- the time for the two leaders be re- AND 5585: BRETT GREENE, 000–00–0000 sonnel Vehicles (LCPV) and 50 larger vessels served for their use later in the day, known as LCMs. Six New York City fire- and the Senate then immediately pro- THE JUDICIARY fighters were put onboard the Landing Craft- JOSEPH H. MCKINLEY, JR., OF KENTUCKY, TO BE U.S. Infantry (LCI) to control fires. General Omar ceed to a vote on the adoption of the DISTRICT JUDGE FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF KEN- Bradley rode the LCI twice, with his second conference report to accompany H.R. TUCKY VICE RONALD E. MEREDITH, DECEASED. ROBERT H. WHALEY, OF WASHINGTON, TO BE U.S. DIS- ride being to Omaha Beach. 1158, the rescissions bill. TRICT JUDGE FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF WASH- CAPT QUENTIN R. WALSH (USCG-RET.) I further ask unanimous consent that INGTON VICE JUSTIN L. QUACKENBUSH, RETIRED. immediately following the vote on the B. LYNN WINMILL, OF IDAHO, TO BE U.S. DISTRICT Captain Walsh graduated from the Coast JUDGE FOR THE DISTRICT OF IDAHO VICE HAROLD L. Guard Academy in 1933. On December 7, 1941, conference report, the Senate resume RYAN, RETIRED.

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