[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 95 (Wednesday, June 23, 2010)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1169]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      REMEMBERING EUGENE McCAMMON

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                             HON. TIM RYAN

                                of ohio

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 23, 2010

  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. Madam Speaker, I rise to remember Eugene Blair 
McCammon of New Springfield, Ohio who passed away last Thursday, June 
17, 2010.
  Mr. McCammon was born on May 15, 1927, in Youngstown, Ohio and worked 
as a railroad yard clerk for the Erie Lackawanna Railroad and as a 
school bus driver for the Boardman schools. He served the community of 
New Springfield as a member of the VFW, a member of the Church of God, 
an EMT, and a volunteer firefighter.
  After his graduation from Rayen High School, he served in the United 
States Navy and later enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. In 
November and December of 1950, Eugene McCammon fought in the Battle of 
Chosin Reservoir known as the Frozen Chosin and fought by the Chosin 
Few. Following the onslaught of the Chinese Army across the Yalu River, 
U.S. and U.N. forces were overwhelmed and began a seventeen-day battle 
as a Siberian cold front dropped the temperature to 35 degrees below 
zero. The fighting at Chosin Reservoir was some of the most violent 
small unit fighting in the history of American warfare as our forces 
struggled along a 78-mile-long narrow road toward the port of Hungnam. 
Eugene McCammon received a Purple Heart and a Silver Star for gallantry 
in action and valor in the face of the enemy.
  Mr. McCammon is survived by two daughters, Kathleen Connolly and Jeri 
Westover, his nephew Robert McLaughlin, two brothers, Earl McCammon and 
Donald McCammon, two sisters, Rose Margaret Maizel and Dorothy Wiscott, 
granddaughter Molly Kathleen, and many friends and extended family 
members.
  On behalf of a grateful Nation we remember the patriotic service and 
the life of our friend and neighbor Eugene Blair McCammon.

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