[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 11 (Thursday, February 12, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E180]
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                    PAYING TRIBUTE TO A FALLEN PILOT

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                        HON. MAURICE D. HINCHEY

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 12, 1998

  Mr. HINCHEY. Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask my colleagues to join 
me in paying tribute to the late Lt. Col. Henry Van Winkle, U.S.M.C., 
who was killed last Friday, February 6, 1998.
  On Friday evening Lt. Col. Van Winkle, according to the United States 
Marine Corps, was returning from a mission patrolling the no fly zone 
above Kuwait when his F-18 collided with another Marine jet. He was 
pronounced dead upon the USS George Washington a short time later.
  Lt. Col. Van Winkle served as a member of the Marine Corps for just 
under twenty years. This 1974 graduate of Susquehanna Valley High 
School in Conklin, New York served his country with distinction. He 
lived as a Marine and he died serving his country.
  I ask that you join me in expressing our deepest sympathies to Lt. 
Col. Van Winkle's widow, Cheryl, to his sons Griffen, age nine, and 
Grant, age three, and to his mother and brothers during this dark time. 
We, as citizens grateful for the service of Lt. Colonel Henry Van 
Winkle, U.S.M.C., join his family in mourning his passing.

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