I rise to join the distinguished junior Senator from Illinois to speak in observance of the 40th anniversary of one of the most somber and aweinspiring events in human history. It is fitting and proper for us as Americans to commemorate that fateful event. for we indeed played the major role. Ours is the greatest Nation on Earth. Mr. President. because we are an immigrant society founded upon. and bound together by. those ideals known by the word "democracy". all other nations have sprung from a single dominant ethnic origin. Therefore. it is not surprising. I suppose. that among those of us in Congress old enough to have vivid memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki we bring not only ambivalence in our feelings but different perspectives to our recollections.
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