[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 144 (Thursday, October 6, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 6, 1994]
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                      TRIBUTE TO MR. LUCIAN ADAMS

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                           HON. FRANK TEJEDA

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 6, 1994

  Mr. TEJEDA. Mr. Speaker, I am proud to announce that on October 29, 
1994 the city of San Antonio will rename interstate highway 37 from 
Loop 410 to interstate highway 10/90 in honor of Mr. Lucian Adams. 
Lucian is a remarkable individual with almost forty-five years of 
military and peacetime service to this nation, including a medal of 
honor earned during World War II.
  Lucian Adams was born in Port Arthur, Texas on October 26, 1922. He 
entered the Army at the age of 20, and with the 30th infantry, 3rd 
infantry division in Italy earned the combat infantry badge, purple 
heart and bronze star. The 3rd division fought through Anzio and 
Cassino, spearheaded the invasion of southern France, and fought 
through the Rhone Valley and into the Vosges Mountains.
  His medal of honor citation reads, ``for conspicuous gallantry and 
intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty on 28 
October 1944, near St. Die, France. When his company was stopped in its 
effort to drive through the Mortagne Forest to reopen the supply line 
to the isolated third battalion, S/Sgt Adams braved the concentrated 
fire of machineguns in a lone assault on a force of German troops * * * 
in the course of the action, he personally killed 9 Germans, eliminated 
3 enemy machineguns, vanquished a special force which was armed with 
automatic weapons and grenade launchers, cleared the woods of hostile 
elements, and reopened the severed supply lines to the assault 
companies of his battalion.''
  After returning from the war, Mr. Adams began work for the veterans' 
administration. He remained in the VA for forty years, assisting 
veterans in their efforts to obtain much needed and deserved medical 
care and benefits. He joined my state senate staff in 1992 as a 
veterans consultant, and currently serves the constituents of the 28th 
district of Texas in the same capacity.
  I am honored to work with Lucian Adams, and I am particularly pleased 
that the city of San Antonio has seen fit to pay tribute to this great 
American.

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