[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 49 (Wednesday, March 26, 2003)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E586]
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                    IN MEMORY OF MAJOR GREGORY STONE

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                       HON. C.L. ``BUTCH'' OTTER

                                of idaho

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, March 26, 2003

  Mr. OTTER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express the deep sorrow I 
share with every Idahoan at the loss of Maj. Gregory Stone. Maj. Stone 
died early Tuesday at an Army field hospital in Kuwait, the second man 
to die from wounds suffered in a grenade attack last Saturday on 
soldiers at Camp Pennsylvania. Maj. Stone was the Air Liaison Officer 
there with the Army's 101st Airborne Division.
  He was a highly trained military officer with 20 years of 
distinguished Air Force and Idaho Air National Guard service. Maj. 
Stone died in a theater of war on the other side of the world, fighting 
to free a foreign people from tyranny and his own countrymen from fear. 
In that, he was true to America's most cherished values and traditions. 
The example of his citizenship and dedication to duty, and how we all 
seek to emulate it, will be his enduring legacy.
  Yet it was as a son and father of two young boys living in Boise that 
Gregory Stone will be best and most dearly remembered. The sadness felt 
by the people of a proud and grateful state pales by comparison with 
his family's grief at his passing. I can only offer them my humble 
condolences, and the hope that a sure knowledge of Gregory's self-
sacrifice and heroism will provide some succor in the difficult days to 
come.
  Maj. Stone embodied the best of America. I am proud to represent the 
family of such a man. They have my personal thanks, and a promise to 
preserve those virtues for which their loved one gave the last full 
measure of devotion.

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