[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 59 (Tuesday, May 12, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E830-E831]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            CARNEGIE RECOGNIZES THE HEROISM OF MARC MEUNIER

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                           HON. BARNEY FRANK

                            of massachusetts

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 12, 1998

  Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts. Mr. Speaker, I was very pleased to 
receive last week a notification from the Carnegie Commission Hero Fund 
word that they had awarded a medal to Marc Meunier of New Bedford, 
Massachusetts. On March 18, 1997, Marc Meunier saved two people from 
drowning. Many of us Mr. Speaker, would be very proud if we were able 
to give assistance to fellow human beings in trouble. To not simply 
give assistance but save the lives of two people who were about to 
drown is obviously an accomplishment of enormous significance. I am 
very pleased that the Hero Fund extended this extremely well deserved 
recognition to Mr. Meunier and I ask that the description of his 
heroics be printed here as an example of how we human beings can act at 
our best.

                            JODI C. RODERICK

                          R. STEPHEN MORRISON

                        Plymouth, Massachusetts

                            MARC M. MEUNIER

                       New Bedford, Massachusetts

       Jodi C. Roderick, Marc M. Meunier, and R. Stephen Morrison 
     saved Leslie L. and Helene

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     E. Faulkner from drowning, Carver, Massachusetts, March 18, 
     1997. Faulkner, 62, and his wife, 71, were traveling in their 
     automobile on a roadway atop an earthen dam when that section 
     of the dam collapsed beneath them. Their car dropped into the 
     deep, 10-foot-wide gap that was created initially and was 
     pinned against debris by turbulent breach waters from East 
     Head Pond, the adjacent reservoir. Faulkner and his wife were 
     trapped in the car, which began to fill with water. Among the 
     first motorists on the scene were Roderick, 37, heating and 
     air conditioning technician; Meunier, 40, correction officer, 
     and Morrison, 47, sales representative. Roderick obtained a 
     hammer, then jumped onto the submerging car's exposed trunk 
     and broke out the rear window before returning to the 
     roadway. At the edge of the breach, he, Meunier, and Morrison 
     pulled Faulkner, then his wife, from the car to the roadway, 
     with Meunier, held by Roderick and Morrison, extended into 
     the breach to reach the victims. The turbulent rush of water 
     continued to widen the breach, undermining the pavement from 
     which the men acted. Faulkner and his wife required 
     hospitalization for treatment of their injuries.

     

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