[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 68 (Thursday, May 23, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S4838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        CONGRATULATING JOE PUNG

 Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I am so proud today to bring to the 
attention of my colleagues the good work of a young constituent of 
mine, Joe Pung of Smith Creek, MI. Joe Pung is an Eagle Scout with 
Troop 178 of Port Huron, MI, and as an Eagle Scout project, Joe 
undertook the establishment of a missing in action war memorial in the 
Goodells Community Park in St. Clair County, MI. Joe told me in a 
letter that he committed himself to this project because he felt ``very 
sad'' that the men and women who are missing in action from WWI, WWII, 
Korea, and Vietnam and who ``gave so much are forgotten by our 
community, and,'' he said, ``I would like to change this.'' And change 
this he did.
  Joe, who graduated from Port Huron High School in June of last year, 
came up with a plan and raised all the money for this project, some 
$8,000, from local businesses. Using that money and several in-kind 
donations, including two three-ton cobblestone pillars, two lights, and 
stonework, Joe erected a 34-foot flagpole with the pillars on each side 
and the names of the missing in action and prisoners of war engraved on 
stone plaques on top of the pillars.
  The memorial is going to be dedicated this Memorial Day, May 27. I 
know I speak for all of us in this body when I say ``congratulations'' 
to Joe for a job well-done, for thinking about those who have gone 
before us and who made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedoms, and for 
reminding us all about the real meaning of Memorial Day.

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