[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 30 (Tuesday, February 25, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E283]
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                       HONORING MR. LARRY WALSTON

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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. Larry Walston 
of Hopkinsville, KY, for his hard work and dedication on behalf of our 
Nation's veterans.
  Mr. Walston has worked tirelessly to document the service of veterans 
who were interred without proper ceremony or marker. In conjunction 
with officials from the Commonwealth of Kentucky, he has obtained the 
military service records of nearly 300 civil war veterans buried in 
Riverside Cemetery in Hopkinsville. These soldiers were interred 
without stones. The documentation he helped collect was used to order 
individual markers from the Department of Veterans Affairs. With the 
assistance of member of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans and 
others, these markers were then placed in the cemetery.
  Mr. Walston served our country as a member of the United States Navy 
and a veterans of the Vietnam War. He is a professor as Hopkinsville 
Community College and a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, 
Military Order of the Stars and Bars, Sons of Union Veterans of the 
Civil War, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and many other community 
service organizations. He is assisting in making application for 
military monuments to be certified under the Kentucky Military Heritage 
Act.
  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to represent Larry Walston in my district. I 
extend my thanks to him for all efforts on behalf of so many deserving 
veterans, and I am proud to bring his accomplishments to the attention 
of this House.

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