Mr. Speaker. I rise today to pay tribute to a World War It hero from my district in Pennsylvania. who will be honored posthumously during "All Airborne Days" in Harrisburg in July. The commrades of Lt. Gen. James M. Gavin will reunite to pay tribute to this legendary man and his long and distinguished military career. The son of Irish immigrants. James Gavin was orphaned at a young age and raised by poor. devout foster parents Martin and Mary Gavin. They came. as so many others did. to work in the coal mines in Mount Carmel. PA. General Gavin remembered his childhood as a hard. but good life.
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