First Infantry Recognition of Sacrifice in Theater Act

Floor Speech

Mr. Speaker, H.R. 1088 offered by our colleague from Kansas, Dr. Roger Marshall, authorizes the Society of the 1st Infantry Division to modify the First Infantry Division Monument here in Washington, D.C.

This society seeks to honor its members who died during combat in Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation New Dawn, and Operation Enduring Freedom.

The 1st Infantry Division of the United States Army has served our country faithfully with distinction and honor for well over a century now. 12,949 heroes of the ``Big Red One'' have fallen in the defense of our Constitution and the freedoms it guarantees. A grateful Nation remembers their names by inscribing them on a monument here in our Nation's Capital.

Every one of them has been faithful to the Division's motto of: ``No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great. Duty first.''

It is time to update and add names to the monument to honor these American heroes and to serve as an inspiration and example to the generation whose freedom and security they gave their lives to protect.

Mr. Speaker, I urge adoption of the measure, and I reserve the balance of my time.

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Mr. McCLINTOCK.
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