[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 135 (Friday, December 8, 2006)]
[Senate]
[Page S11694]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




   SERGEANT FIRST CLASS ROBERT LEE ``BOBBY'' HOLLAR, JR. POST OFFICE 
                                BUILDING

  Mr. ISAKSON. Mr. President, today I pay tribute to SFC Robert Lee 
``Bobby'' Hollar, Jr. Sergeant First Class Hollar was an exemplary 
soldier, respected U.S. Postal employee, and a loving family man.
  Before deploying for Iraq, Sergeant First Class Hollar dropped by 
Crescent Elementary School in Griffin, GA, to visit a class of 
students. In the classroom, Sergeant First Class Hollar fielded 
questions about where he was headed, what he would be doing there, and 
when he would be coming home. He encouraged the students to write and 
promised he would do the same.
  On September 1, 2005, on a road south of Baghdad, an IED ended the 
life of Sergeant First Class Hollar. As word of his death reached the 
classroom where he had stood just months before, the children began to 
cry. You see, Sergeant First Class Hollar taught them something else: 
he taught them that our freedom is not free.
  This week, the Senate passed S. 4050, a bill naming the post office 
in Thomaston, GA, as the Sergeant First Class Robert Lee ``Bobby'' 
Hollar, Jr. Post Office Building. For the children at Crescent 
Elementary School, this building will serve as a lasting memory of 
their pen pal and hero. For the rest of us, this building will serve as 
a reminder that our freedom is not free.
  In closing, I would like to thank the numerous people in Georgia who 
helped to make this possible as well as the U.S. Postal Service and my 
fellow Senators.

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