speech. i guess that would have been the 50th anniversary of d-day when he gave this speech about what it was like to pilot a b-29. you had veterans in congress from world war ii generation. we don t have that anymore. you ve got all aging veterans of world war ii veteran today at the mall. yeah you raise a number of interesting points there. it revolves around age. we re losing more than 1,000 world war ii veterans every single day. obviously it s a matter of time before they re all gone. that s why this ceremony here all day long is quite somber in many respects. second, a very important point. that is that we are pretty much beref of veterans in the congress. when i came in 50 years ago, almost every member of congress every senator, had been this the service during the second world