California Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy on the largely ignored Jeremiah Denton story:

In March, the Democrat leadership gave its blessing to a boisterous martial arts demonstration in the Assembly chamber. This week, they refused to allow one of America's great war heroes to give a patriotic speech at a Fourth of July celebration in that same chamber...

Ironically, [the Democrat leadership] are afraid of giving aid and comfort to their own nation. They even seem to fear that we will be successful on the battlefield. What's good for America is bad for Democrats.

So they tried to silence Admiral Jeremiah Denton. They didn't succeed. They did force the speech to be moved from the spacious Assembly floor to a cramped conference room. It was a moving ceremony. One courageous Democrat, Assemblyman John Dutra, gave the invocation. World War II veterans -- including Pearl Harbor survivors and Tuskegee airmen -- responded enthusiastically...

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