[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 81 (Friday, June 17, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1267]
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IN RECOGNITION AND REMEMBRANCE OF THE LIFE OF U.S. MARINE CORPS CAPTAIN 
                             KELLY C. HINZ

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                          HON. BETTY McCOLLUM

                              of minnesota

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 17, 2005

  Mrs. McCOLLUM of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, I thank you for the 
opportunity to recognize and honor the life U.S./Marine Corps Capt. 
Kelly C. Hinz.
  Capt. Hinz was a Marine Corps fighter pilot who died May 2, 2005, 
from injuries received when the F/A-18 Hornet aircraft he was piloting 
crashed in Iraq while flying in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
Capt. Hinz was a native of Woodbury, Minn., and a 1993 graduate of St. 
Thomas Academy in Mendota Heights, Minn., where he was a member of the 
State championship downhill ski team, and where his family remained 
active after their sons had graduated. Capt. Hinz was also a graduate 
of the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minn., in the District I 
represent.
  Capt. Hinz earned his wings as an aviator in March 2002, after which 
he and his wife Molly were stationed in San Diego. Capt. Hinz and his 
wife have one daughter, Abby.
  Capt. Hinz comes from a military, and flying, family. Donald Hinz was 
a retired naval and commercial pilot who died in a plane crash in 2004. 
In his retirement, Donald Hinz had committed himself to restoring a P-
51 C Mustang fighter plane in honor of the Tuskegee Airmen. His 
brother, Ben Hinz, is also a Marine pilot. His brother Kurt has his 
private pilot's license, and brother Luke will earn his this summer.
  Capt. Hinz inherited a strong sense of duty to his country from his 
father, and reminds us of the human face of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
There have been 19 members of the military from Minnesota who have died 
in Iraq since 2003. I honor Capt. Hinz for his courageous service to 
this country, and his commitment to protecting our freedom.

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