House Proceeding 10-06-09 on Oct 6th, 2009 :: 2:54:35 to 2:57:25
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Patrick Murphy: must do. so, captain murphy, i congratulate you, i thank you for doing this, i'm proud to stand with you. you have over 170 of our colleagues with you on this. it's time to move this forward. it's time to erase this mistake for our security and for americans and i'll be with you every step of the way. so thank you for that and with

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Speech By: Patrick Murphy

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Patrick Murphy: that i yield back to the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. murphy: i thank the gentleman from minnesota. there's two points that he mentioned -- mentioned that i'd like to highlight. one is the fact that there are 27 other nations that allow their troops to serve openly. some of our truffest allies, -- toughest allies, great britain, israel, the aussies, they all

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Patrick Murphy: allow their troops to serve openly with no detrimental affects. and secondly, the command sergeant major there mentioned ewoe jimafment i spoke to -- iwo jima. i spoke got an email from one of the colonels i met with. he said, and i quote, gay men

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Patrick Murphy: and women have been serving honorably in our military for decades. he sent me a moving passage from a book about world war ii, reflecting on his experiences, a marine wrote, that lesson of tolerance was well lerved by the men in our company -- learned by the men in our company.

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Patrick Murphy: during free campaigns in which we took part, valor and unselfishness were commonplace. i saw bravery and sacrifice all around me. one of the most courageous men i met was our navy corpsesman, a teenage boy who always put our well-being ahead of his own.

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Patrick Murphy: in combat he cared for us, he bandaged our wounds and comforted our men as they died. often he would leave his position of relative safetynd move out into the hail of enemy gunfire to treat a downed

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Patrick Murphy: marine or pull a man t safety. lifetime and time again to take care of his fellow men. on his last rescue attempt he was badly wounded when a japanese machine gun put a round through his thigh and another round in his chest. billy's wounds were life-threatening. and he was quickly transported

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Patrick Murphy: out to a hospital ship for treatment. but billy didn't make it. billy was posthumously awarded to navy cross, our nation's second highest honor for extraordinary heroism under fire. i loved billy then and i will always love him. billy was a homosexual.

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Patrick Murphy: every single marine in our company will be proud to stand with him and call him friend and broth