[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 177 (Thursday, November 9, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S16940]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          GENERAL LLOYD MOSES

  Mr. DASCHLE. Mr. President, I would like to take this opportunity to 
recognize the outstanding life and military career of a veteran of the 
Second World War: Retired Major General Lloyd Moses who currently 
resides in Vermillion, SD.
  General Moses came from humble beginnings. He was born in 1904 on 
what was then the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in Fairfax, SD. His 
mother was half Sioux Indian. His father was a carpenter.
  Despite not having a formal grade school education, General Moses 
graduated from High School and the Black Hills Teachers College, and 
obtained a degree in Chemistry from the University of South Dakota.
  General Moses enjoyed a long and illustrious military career. In 
1933, General Moses applied for Active Duty in the U.S. Army and was 
promoted to the rank of first lieutenant in 1935. During World War II, 
he served as a battalion commander of the 75th Infantry Division and 
volunteered to participate with the 507th Parachute Regiment, 17th 
Airborne Division in ``Operation Varsity,'' the airborne assault across 
the Rhine River in 1945.
  In the Korean War, General Moses commanded the 31st Infantry and in 
1955 was promoted to the rank of brigadier general. In 1957, he was 
promoted to the rank of major general. General Moses reached the 
pinnacle of his military career in 1960 when, following in the 
footsteps of other generals such as George McClellan, Andrew Jackson, 
and Ulysses S. Grant, he became commanding general of the 5th U.S. 
Army.
  His military awards include the Distinguished Service Cross, the 
Silver Star for heroics in Korea, and the Distinguished Service Medal, 
the Nation's highest peacetime military award. General Moses retired in 
1964 as the highest ranking South Dakotan ever to serve in the U.S. 
Army.
  General Moses remains committed to the promise of education. After 
retiring from the military, General Moses returned to the University of 
South Dakota and became the director of the Institute for American 
Studies.
  As an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, he spent the next 
10 years successfully expanding the curriculum of Native American 
courses at the University in an effort to teach cultural awareness and 
encourage the continued education of Native American youth. When he 
retired in 1974, the enrollment of Native American students at the 
University was at an all-time high, and the Institute for American 
Studies was rapidly becoming one of the foremost centers of oral 
history and tradition in the United States.
  From such humble beginnings, General Lloyd Moses developed the 
leadership and education that helped our forces to victory in Europe 
50-years ago and has continued to assist our growth as a Nation. His 
story is proof that great deeds can still come from hard work and a 
strong mind. And that great men can still come from small places like 
Fairfax, SD.

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