[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 108 (Wednesday, September 6, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S9045]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mrs. CLINTON:
  S. 3847. A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal 
Service located at 110 Cooper Street in Babylon, New York, as the 
``Jacob Samuel Fletcher Post Office Building''; to the Committee on 
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
  Mrs. CLINTON. Mr. President, I am pleased to introduce legislation 
which would designate the facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 110 Cooper Street in Babylon, NY, as the ``Jacob Samuel 
Fletcher Post Office Building.''
  Jacob Samuel Fletcher sent his first application for military 
enlistment to the Marines when he was 8 years old. Young Jacob had 
completed an application he found in a magazine and submitted it 
through the mail. Though his mother told the Marines recruiter to call 
back in a few years, it wouldn't be long before Fletcher was wearing a 
uniform.
  Fletcher enlisted in the Army soon after the September 11 terrorist 
attacks. He told family members that he felt he had a duty to serve his 
country. This service was nothing new to his family, as both his father 
and his stepfather served in Vietnam.
  His story, however, ends in a tragically different manner than his 
father's or stepfather's. On November 14, 2003, PFC Jacob Samuel 
Fletcher was killed when a road side bomb exploded near a bus he was 
riding in Samara, Iraq. It was 11 days before his 29th birthday. He was 
posthumously awarded the Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.
  While he was close to finishing his tour of duty at the time of his 
death, Jacob told family and friends that he was not finished serving; 
he hoped to become a state trooper upon completion of his tour in the 
military.
  I ask that the Senate come together and honor this brave American for 
his service to our Nation.
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