[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 137 (Monday, December 6, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2146]
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                      IN MEMORY OF SUSAN P. GORMAN

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                         HON. MICHAEL N. CASTLE

                              of delaware

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, December 6, 2004

  Mr. CASTLE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and pay tribute to the 
life of Mrs. Susan P. Gorman, who passed away on Wednesday, November 
17, 2004, at the Veterans Hospital in Elsmere, Delaware.
  Sue Gorman was born in Bally James Duff, County Cavan, Ireland. After 
her family moved to Delaware, she attended Wilmington High School, and 
was a 1944 graduate of the Wilmington General Hospital School of 
Nursing. She also attended St. John's University and the University of 
Pennsylvania.
  Sue was a dedicated and hard-working registered nurse for the 
Wilmington Hospital for nearly four decades. Sue Gorman also heard the 
call of her adopted country and joined the nascent Army Nursing Corps 
in 1944, serving in the Asian and Pacific Theaters at the 108th General 
Hospital in Tinian during World War II. The battle against the Japanese 
Empire in the Pacific saw some of the most brutal fighting of the 
entire war and, but for the skill and dedication of nurses like Sue 
Gorman, the mortality rate for American servicemen would have been much 
higher.
  We now recount the names of the Pacific battles--Guam, Iwo Jima, 
Okinawa, Leyte Gulf--as if the American victory was simple and assured. 
At the time, of course, victory was not assured and the men and women 
who served know that it was anything but simple. Sue Gorman was one of 
those women and, like the other brave nurses in the Army Nurse Corps, 
her contributions to the war effort and our enduring freedom will never 
be forgotten.
  Sue Gorman was a member of the Wilmington High School Alumni 
Association, the Cathedral of St. Peter, the Wilmington Republicans 
Women's Club and a charter member of the Irish Culture Club. She 
enjoyed Irish music and dance and spending time with her grandchildren 
and great grandchildren.
  We are a better nation, a better people because of brave and strong 
women like Sue Gorman. She deserves our utmost respect, and 
appreciation.

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