[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 39 (Thursday, March 5, 2009)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E559]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       IN HONOR OF AL AND GLORIA NAHUM ON THEIR 60TH ANNIVERSARY

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                            HON. JOE SESTAK

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 5, 2009

  Mr. SESTAK. Madam Speaker, I rise to recognize the love and 
commitment of two wonderful people who today will begin their seventh 
decade as man and wife. Since they first met at City College, New York 
and through peace, war, prosperity and hard times, Al and Gloria Nahum 
have devoted themselves to their country, community, faith, and most of 
all, their family.
  As a young 2nd Lieutenant in our United States Army, Al Nahum 
courageously went to fight for his nation in the most violent and 
destructive conflict in the history of mankind. In the process he not 
only helped defeat fascism and stop the Holocaust, he earned for his 
bride to be and their children yet unborn, an era of prosperity and 
security also unrivaled in history. As World War II was resolved, Al 
Nahum with a clear appreciation for the cost of freedom and the horror 
of war, bravely continued to stand watch for his family and his fellow 
Americans in the U.S. Army Reserve. When he retired as a Major, the 
Army lost a fine officer but Gloria, sons Robert and Kenneth, daughters 
Laurie and Debra finally had their hero safely home.
  During Al's service Gloria was also fully engaged in making ours the 
greatest possible nation. As an exceptionally dedicated elementary 
school teacher, she consistently provided her students a level of skill 
and devotion few educators will ever match. But no accomplishment of Al 
and Gloria will ever be as special as the extraordinary people their 
children have become. That they are renowned physicians, and leaders in 
commerce and the media, their greatest achievement is that they and 
their spouses Roberta, Richard, Anne Marie and Christopher are as 
loving to their children as their mother and father are to them.
  Madam Speaker, I ask that on this very special day this chamber join 
me in wishing the remarkable Al and Gloria Nahum, their children and 
their spectacular grandchildren Jennifer, Daniel, Tara, Brett, Jody, 
Jeffery, Mandy, Kelly, Brittany, David, Natalie and Reinhart all the 
love and happiness they so richly deserve. Surely there is no family 
more loving, accomplished and thoroughly devoted to one another. They 
are an inspiration to all who are blessed to know them.

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