June 4, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 93 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       75TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY

  (Mr. GUEST asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUEST. Mr. Speaker, 75 years ago, in a letter to his troops, 
General Dwight D. Eisenhower encouraged the invasion forces of D-Day.
  ``The eyes of the world are upon you,'' he wrote. ``The hope and 
prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.'' He ended 
this famous letter with a call to pray: ``Let us all beseech the 
blessings of Almighty God upon this great and noble undertaking.''
  On the 75th anniversary of D-Day, we turn our attention and 
admiration to those young soldiers at sea, in the air, and on land who 
sought to liberate Europe from tyranny.
  This is the time to humbly remember the sacrifice of over 4,000 
American soldiers who died on the beaches of Normandy to liberate the 
world from evil; and it is a time to thank Almighty God for his 
blessings in delivering some of the heroes of D-Day home after the war 
and for welcoming those who did not into his heavenly kingdom.

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