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Mr. Speaker, members of congress, ambassadors and other honored guests, we are gathered to celebrate the achievements of some 350 men and women from 14 nations who served in the monuments, fine arts and archives section. We now know these men and scholar soldiers as the Monuments Men. Only six are still living. Ann olivier bell and reuben sammy were unable to travel. However, bernard taper, richard barancik, Motoko Fujishiro huthwaite, and Harry Ettlinger are with us today. So, too, are 175 family members of Monuments Men since passed. Our Founding Fathers committed to us the cause of freedom, the Monuments Men did no less for the respect and preservatio ....