October 22, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 167 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

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        HONORING AND LAYING TO REST 81 SOUTH VIETNAMESE SOLDIERS

  (Mr. LOWENTHAL asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LOWENTHAL. Mr. Speaker, in late 1965, a C-123 transport was shot 
down over Vietnam. The flight's four American crewmen were identified 
and their remains returned home.
  The 81 South Vietnamese soldiers also on board were never identified, 
their remains never properly interred. The current Vietnamese 
Government has twice refused to allow the soldiers' remains to return 
home.
  This Saturday, October 26, the remains of these 81 soldiers will be 
finally laid to rest in the Little Saigon community of Orange County, 
California, in my district.
  I thank Senator Jim Webb, the Lost Soldiers Foundation, the Republic 
of Vietnam Airborne Division's national and local chapters, and 
everyone involved in making it possible to finally honor and properly 
inter these 81 soldiers.

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