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I am glad to join with my colleagues of the Seventyfourth Congress of the United States in making possible delayed tribute of respect and honor to a great soldier and a great PolishAmerican. There is no more splendid element among the various nationality groups that make up the great melting pot we call the United States of America than the citizens of Polish extraction. The Polish immigrants and their early descendants were not only "the hewers of wood and the drawers of water ". but rapidly took and are still taking their just and entitled places in the administrative. legislative. and industrial*affairs of the Nation. The reputation of our PolishAmerican citizens as an industrious. lawabiding. and patriotic people cannot be assailed. In the religious. political. professional. and business fields PolishAmerican men and women are making worthwhile contributions to the welfare of our land.