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I also want to acknowledge another member of the delegation: Congressman ROD BLAGOJEVICH. a secondterm Congressman from Chicagos North Side. and the only SerbianAmerican in the House of Representatives. There are moments in history where a person emerges who seems almost to have been born to fulfill a critical role. On this mission. ROD BLAGOJEVICH was that person. Not only is he a man of significant political and moral courage. he is also the son of Yugoslav immigrants. His father spent four years in a Nazi POW camp during World War 11. He learned to speak SerboCroation as a child. and still speaks it.