i told these north enemy soldiers about him and i pulled out of my pocket a piece of led sulfite, of galena, that i brought over with me and i said i'll bury this here and i'll bury this on this hill at the top of this hill where my young friends never reached the top but now a piece of his hometown was here and i assured them that this led, this galena led sulfite, would last as long as the red clay of the hill would last. in many ways, in that brief moment on that isolated hot, humid, triple canopy fight hilltop in vietnam my research, my personal biography and my commitment to work with supporting veterans and to remember those who died, my scholarly focus, my personal interest, they all overlapped. have a chapter on hamburger hill in this book. it's the only battle in the war that i treat in any detail because i think it represents and symbolizes so much about the war. my interest has been to tell the stories of human faces and the human tragedies, sharing their stories is something that is important. i've always found it troubling that perhaps the name most americans knew of vie

in the communities by adding hydrogen sulfite to a list of hazardous pollutants. and swells as a source. my amendment simply makes the clean air act better. you can't round something significant down to zero when you have a lot of them concentrated in a particular area. of course there is an impacted air quality from 1,000, to 10,000 wells that operate in one county. i encourage my colleagues to vote yes on my amendment and i reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from -- does anyone rise to oppose the amendment? mr. shimkus: mr. chairman, i seek time in opposition to the amendment. the chair: the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. shimkus: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, the subject of h.r. 806 is criteria pollutants and the national ambient air quality standards program, not the hazardous air pollutant program which my colleague is referring to. these two programs are addressed under different sections of the clean air act. yeah, the whole title, clean air act, but you have one section here dealing with na

i picked up a couple of pieces of lead sulfite in the graham mine and kept them on my desk.and a few years later in the spring of 1969, i know that -- i learned that michael, my boss' son, this young kid, had been kill on hamburger hill when a rocket-propelled grenade had struck him in the chest and killed him immediately. i told these north seat9 ma news soldiers about him, and i pulled out of my pocket a piece of lead sulfite of galena that i brought over there with me. and i said i'm going to bury this hill -- this here. i'm going to bauerly this on -- bury this on the top of this hill where my young friend never reached the top. but now a piece of his hometown was here, and i assured them that this lead from galena, this lead sulfite would last as long as the red clay would last. in many ways in that brief moment on that isolated, hot, humid, triple-canopied, quiet hilltop in vietnam, my research, my personal biography, my commitment to working with and supporting veterans and to remembering those who died, my scholarly focus, my personal interests, they all overlapped.