| 00:00:00 | 85% OF SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR CONFLICTS IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN ARE CARRIED ABOARD SHIPS BY CIVILIAN MARINERS. |
| 00:00:11 | TODAY WE REMEMBER ALL THESE BRAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO RISKED THEIR LIVES CROSSING THE ATLANTIC, THE PACIFIC, THE PERSIAN GULF, AND MANY OTHER SEAS TO TRANSPORT ESSENTIAL GOODS OR BRING SOLDIERS AND OTHERS OUT OF HARM'S WAY. |
| 00:00:24 | GENERAL DWIGHT EISENHOWER SAID IT BEST. |
| 00:00:30 | "WHEN FINALLY THE VICTORIES ARE, NO ORGANIZATION WILL SHARE ITS CREDIT MORE VISIBLY THAN MERCHANT MARINE. |
| 00:00:36 | " ON BEHALF OF EVERYONE AT THE U. |
| 00:00:39 | S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE MARITIME ADMINISTRATION, I WANT TO THANK THE U. |
| 00:00:44 | S. MERCHANT MARINE AND ALL OF OUR VETERANS FOR THEIR SELFLESS DEVOTION TO OUR COUNTRY. |
| 00:00:49 | WE MUST ALWAYS ACKNOWLEDGE THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE ARMED SERVICES TO PROTECT US TODAY. |
| 00:00:54 | SOLDIERS, SAILORS, AIRMEN, GUARDIANS, MARINES, AND THE MARINERS TO SERVE US IN THESE TIMES OF CONFLICT AND ARE PROUDLY AND ABLY CARRYING ON THE LEGACY OF THE GREATEST GENERATION. |
| 00:01:06 | THANK YOU ALSO MUCH FOR BEING HERE TO HONOR OUR VETERANS, AND GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA. |
| 00:01:12 | THANK YOU VERY MUCH. |
| 00:01:25 | I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT THE UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM HAWAII. |
| 00:01:32 | AS A YOUNG MAN, HE WITNESSED THE ATTACK OF PEARL HARBOR AND SUBSEQUENTLY SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE U. |
| 00:01:38 | S. ARMY THROUGHOUT THE WAR IN SEVERAL AREAS OF THE PACIFIC. |
| 00:01:41 | AS MANY AND VETERANS OF THE GENERATION, HE WAS ABLE TO ATTEND COLLEGE AFTER THE WAR BECAUSE OF THE GI BILL. |
| 00:01:48 | HE MADE A CAREER IN PUBLIC EDUCATION AND WAS ELECTED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IN 1976 AND BECAME A U. |
| 00:01:56 | S. SENATOR FROM HAWAII IN 1990. |
| 00:01:58 | LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, SENATOR DANIEL AKAKA. |
| 00:02:11 | [APPLAUSE] >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. |
| 00:02:18 | MR. |
| 00:02:19 | AMBASSADOR, SECRETARY LAHOOD, OF VETERANS OF SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE AN INTEREST AND HAVE HAD AN INTEREST IN WORLD WAR II AND THE WAR IS THAT AFFECTED OUR COUNTRY, I WANT TO SAY ALOHA |
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