Mr. Speaker. of Boys Town and how. in my district. it has impacted our community and our country with a fitting tribute to the legacy of Father Flanagan. who founded Boys Town. A priest and an immigrant from Ireland. Father Flanagan was of modest means. but in 1917about 5 years after becoming a priesthe borrowed $90 from Bnai Brith member Henry Monsky to open a boarding house because they both shared a love for the homeless boys. who had been abandoned or orphaned. living on the streets of our city. They created this boarding house. went out and recruited boys from the streets to come in. where he not only housed them and fed them but where he educated them and taught them a trade.
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