[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 25, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E282]
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                      HONORING MR. RICHARD P'POOL

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                           HON. ED WHITFIELD

                              of kentucky

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 25, 2003

  Mr. WHITFIELD. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Mr. Richard P'Pool 
of Princeton, Kentucky for his hard work and dedication on behalf of 
our nation's veterans.
  Mr. P'Pool has spent countless hours and resources documenting and 
recognizing veterans who have been interred without proper ceremony or 
marker. When discovering a grave without a proper marker, Mr. P'Pool 
begins to research the veteran. It is necessary to fully document the 
service member's military career so that the Department of Veterans 
Affairs can provide a military marker for the grave. Mr. P'Pool helped 
apply for and received over 300 markers from the Department of Veterans 
Affairs at his own expense. This process requires hours of tedious and 
detailed research because the documentation required, including the 
muster rolls and the extracts from State files or land warrants, is not 
often not readily available.
  Whenever possible, Mr. P'Pool organizes a memorial ceremony to honor 
the veteran with the assistance of re-enactment soldiers from the 5th 
Tennessee Infantry Regiment, members of the Sons of Confederate 
Veterans and members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. They 
have memorialized soldiers of the Civil War, Korean War and World War 
II.
  Mr. P'Pool served our country in the United States Army. He worked at 
the White House Communications Agency under Presidents Nixon, Ford and 
Carter from 1973 until 1977, and he is currently employed as a 
millwright in Calvert City, Kentucky in my Congressional District. He 
is a member of the Caldwell County Historical Society, the Sons of 
Confederate Veterans, the Kentucky Historical Society, the Kentucky 
Genealogical Society and the Friends of the National Park at 
Gettysburg. He is assisting in making application for military 
monuments to be certified under the Kentucky Military Heritage Act.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to call attention to the selfless acts of 
Richard P'Pool. I extend my thanks to him for all his efforts on behalf 
of so many deserving veterans, and I am honored to bring his 
accomplishments to the attention of this House.

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