[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 138 (Wednesday, October 26, 2005)]
[House]
[Pages H9249-H9250]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
HONORING THE AMERICANS FALLEN IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Emanuel) is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. EMANUEL. Madam Speaker, yesterday we marked a solemn milestone:
over 2,000 American military personnel have now given their lives
fighting in Iraq. 246 Americans have also fallen in the line of duty in
Afghanistan.
We owe these brave men and women and their families a debt of
gratitude that can never fully be repaid. In July of this year, I led a
bipartisan group of 21 Members of Congress in reading the names of the
fallen into the Congressional Record. Tonight we continue this tribute
by reading the names of some of those who have fallen recently to
complete the list.
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At that point we had said we would read every American's name as an
official part of the Congressional Record. In the words of President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, each of these heroes stands in the unbroken
line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live and grow
and increase in its blessings.
God bless each of them and keep each of the brave Americans whose
memory we honor tonight in our hearts: 1st Sergeant Alan Nye Gifford,
Specialist David H. Ford IV, Staff Sergeant Regilio E. Nelom, Sergeant
1st Class Lawrence E. Morrison, Specialist William L. Evans, Specialist
William V. Fernandez, Sergeant Michael Egan, 1st Lieutenant Mark H.
Dooley, Sergeant Pierre A. Raymond, Staff Sergeant William Alvin Allers
III, Sergeant Travis M. Arndt, Specialist Scott P. McLaughlin,
Specialist Kevin M. Jones, Specialist Mike T. Sonoda Jr., Sergeant Paul
C. Neubauer, Sergeant Andrew Joseph Derrick, Sergeant Brian E. Dunlap,
Staff Sergeant Daniel R. Schelle, Sergeant Shawn A. Graham, Sergeant
Kenneth G. Ross, Sergeant Tane T. Baum, Warrant Officer Adrian B.
Stump, Sergeant Patrick D. Stewart, Chief Warrant Officer John M.
Flynn, Sergeant 1st Class Casey E. Howe, Master Sergeant Tulsa T.
Tuliau, Private Elijah M. Ortega, Sergeant Andrew P. Wallace,
Specialist Michael J. Wendling, Sergeant Howard P. Allen, Lance
Corporal Steven A. Valdez, Staff Sergeant Robert F. White, Staff
Sergeant Jason A. Benford, Private 1st Class Oliver J. Brown,
Specialist Lee A. Wiegand, Sergeant Eric W. Slebodnik, Staff Sergeant
George A. Pugliese, Staff Sergeant Daniel L. Arnold, Airman 1st Class
Elizabeth N. Jacobson, Sergeant Steve Morin Jr., Sergeant 1st Class
James J. Stoddard Jr., Staff Sergeant John G. Doles, Staff Sergeant
Jens E. Schelbert, Specialist Joshua J. Kynoch, Sergeant Marshall A.
Westbrook, Staff Sergeant Timothy J. Roark, Sergeant Larry Wayne Pankey
Jr., Private 1st Class Roberto C. Baez, Specialist Jacob T.
Vanderbosch, Sergeant Bryan W. Large, Corporal John R. Stalvey,
Sergeant Sean B. Berry, Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian K. Joplin,
Private 1st Class Andrew D. Bedard, Lance Corporal Carl L. Raines II.
Madam Speaker, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, who wrote to the
mother of five fallen soldiers in the Civil War, ``I pray that our
Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave
you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn
pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the
alter of freedom.''
I would also like to thank the brave men and women who continue to
serve our Nation in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the world, and
serve their country with distinction and honor. Our thoughts and
prayers and gratitude are with you and your families at this time until
you return home.
Madam speaker, in case I mispronounced any names of any of the
individuals, I apologize to them and their family. This brings us to
little over 2,136 names read out of the 2,246.
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