When I started thinkingand I have found many other people who said this. tooof the fact that we lost 55.000 of our young mens lives in Vietnam because we were trying to protect the ability of a country to choose its own way and to choose freedom. and that we spent $156 billion of the money of this country in order to protect that. for us to say at this stage that we are now not going to support those bare 100.000 or so who chose freedom. who elected to come to freedom rather than stay as that country falls. that would bring me to where I could not look in the eyes of a mother or father who had lost a son. or the eyes of anyone else in this country who had supported the sacrifice that we did when we thought we were there for the right purpose. We certainly were not after any gain for ourselves. We were trying to protect and allow that country to be able to choose its own destiny. Now. for those people who have elected to leave. certainly. we can take care of them. I think. also. of over 400.000 Cuban refugees my State took. they have assimilated themselves into the community. not without hardship to some of the people that were native to Florida before the Cubans came. but on the whole. they have done an excellent Job. They have added to my State. They have added to our community.
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