[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 100 (Thursday, July 27, 2000)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1344]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        REMEMBERING JOHN ELLIOTT

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                         HON. FRANK A. LoBIONDO

                             of new jersey

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, July 26, 2000

  Mr. LoBIONDO. Mr. Speaker, thank you for allowing me the opportunity 
to recognize and pay tribute to the memory of fine young man, Ensign 
John R. Elliott, 22 of Egg Harbor Township who passed away on Saturday, 
July 22, 2000.
  I would like to offer my deepest sympathy to John's family and 
friends for their loss of a son, a brother, a grandson, a nephew, a 
cousin, and a friend. I am truly saddened by John's death and hope that 
his family and friends may experience peace and comfort in this time of 
sorrow.
  I met John in the fall of 1995 when he participated in the 
application process for admission to one of our nation's four 
academies. John expressed his desire to serve in the United States 
Navy. I had the privilege of nominating him to the United States Naval 
Academy. In the spring of 1996, he was appointed and accepted by the 
United States Naval Academy as a member of the Class of 2000.
  While at the Academy, John was designated to participate in the 
United States Navy Honors program, nothing new to a young man who was 
among the top five graduates in the 1996 Egg Harbor Township High 
School graduating class, a National Merit Scholar and class president. 
John was recognized for his exceptional achievement in the fields of 
math and science and graduated with a Bachelors in Science Degree with 
merit in systems engineering. Upon graduation, he received his 
commission as an ensign in the Navy and was to attend flight school in 
Pensacola, Florida.
  As his father has said, he was filled with hopes and dreams for his 
future. John's hopes and dreams can still be realized in the memory of 
John's accomplishments. John was an intelligent, hard-working and 
popular young man, respected and liked by his peers, a successful 
student and fine young man who had a bright future with the United 
States Navy. John was one of our best and brightest. He epitomized all 
that makes the United States of America the greatest nation on the face 
of the earth.
  My thoughts and prayers are with John's parents, Bill and Muriel 
Elliott of Egg Harbor Township, his sister Jennifer, his grandmother 
Audrey Moyer, his aunts and uncles Pamela and Randall Johns, Robert and 
Deborah Elliott, and Artis and Stephen Hoffman, and the rest of his 
family and friends during this time of grief.

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