But we also celebrate Americawhich has brought out the greatness in so many sons of Italy. We celebrate Arturo Toscanini. Fiorello LaGuardia. and Enrico Fermi. And we celebrate Rocky Marciano and Joe Dimaggio. We celebrate the memory of those povertystricken immigrants from South Italy whose descendants today are in the American mainstream. We celebrate the facts about todays Americans who trace their heritage to Italy. The statistics about educationas I pointed out last evening in our meeting with my beloved friend Senator PASTOREthe statistics point out this fact: that the secondgeneration ItalianAmerican has finished more years of school than the average American.
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