[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 26 (Tuesday, March 8, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           CELEBRATING THE 90TH BIRTHDAY OF HORACE H. HEYMANN

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                         HON. GARY L. ACKERMAN

                              of new york

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, March 8, 2005

  Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the 90th 
birthday of Horace H. Heymann.
  Horace was born a citizen of Germany in 1915, and grew up beneath the 
rising specter of Nazism. Fearing that they would become victims of the 
Holocaust, he and his family separated in 1932 and fled from their 
native country. Horace made the journey to the United States, where he 
found his family safe in their adopted nation.
  Horace served his new homeland with fierce loyalty, enlisting in the 
Navy upon the United States' entry into World War II. After serving 
honorably in the Sea Bees Battalion, he returned to his Hollis Hills, 
Queens County, New York home and began his most significant work, that 
of raising a family.
  At the age of 90, Horace is a proud father, grandfather, and United 
States veteran. His life is a shining example of the emblematic vision 
of hope that America inspires in the persecuted, and of the powerful 
influence a loving father has on his children and his children's 
children.
  Mr. Speaker, on behalf of three generations of Americans, I ask my 
colleagues in the House of Representatives to please join me in 
honoring Horace H. Heymann as he celebrates his 90th birthday.

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