[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 131 (Saturday, September 26, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H8974]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




     TRIBUTE TO MAJOR GENERAL GEORGE MARINE OF WHITE HALL, ILLINOIS

  (Mr. SHIMKUS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this time to remember 
a man who embodied the best of our community, Retired Army Major 
General George Marine of White Hall, Illinois, who died earlier this 
summer at the age of 68.
  After his retirement, he began a career as a farmer, was a driving 
force behind the Greene County Rural Water District, the Greene County 
Economic Development Council, and served on the Boyd Memorial Hospital 
Board.
  General Marine was also out in the community. One of his last 
projects was to repair and paint the picnic tables at the White Hall 
Park.
  As his retirement was filled with success, so was his active duty. He 
served in a position in the Pentagon where he spoke with President 
Lyndon Johnson virtually every day during the Vietnam War. In Korea, 
where General Marine served with Colin Powell, he earned his first 
combat infantryman's badge.
  Mr. Speaker, his family's loss is our loss as well. Greene County 
Treasurer, Kirby Ballard, summed it up well. ``He was the way we all 
should retire.''

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