[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 31 (Thursday, February 16, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E371]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                     TRIBUTE TO COL. ALBERT S. WYNOT

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                        HON. JOHN JOSEPH MOAKLEY

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, February 16, 1995
  Mr. MOAKLEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to share with my colleagues some sad 
news from my district in Massachusetts. Retired Army Col. Albert S. 
Wynot passed away on January 27, 1995. Colonel Wynot, a resident of 
Walpole, MA, served in the Army from 1938 until his retirement in 1950, 
and then continued his service as a member of the Army reserves until 
1980. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [MIT], 
Colonel Wynot fought in World War II with the 329th Engineering 
Battalion and was intimately involved in the planning and execution of 
the D-day invasion in Normandy on June 6, 1944.
  Colonel Wynot was the proud recipient of the Purple Heart, the Bronze 
Star, the Bronze Star Cluster, the American Defense Medal, 
Distinguished Unit Medal, the Order of the French Army, and the United 
States Victory Medal.
  I last saw Colonel Wynot during a district swing this fall when I 
visited him in the New Pond Village residences in Walpole, MA. Even 
then, during a question and answer session that I hosted with the 
residents, Colonel Wynot had strong opinions about national issues 
ranging from the collapse of the Soviet Union and its empire in Eastern 
Europe to the local sludge issue in the town of Walpole. Colonel Wynot 
loved debate and discussion and was, in every sense of the word, a 
colonel until the end.
  I extend my sympathies to his wife Dorothy, his family and all of his 
friends and neighbors at New Pond Village.


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