[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 31 (Thursday, March 3, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E408-E409]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         REMEMBERING SHAWN WEBB

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                          HON. TOM McCLINTOCK

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 3, 2011

  Mr. McCLINTOCK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the life of Shawn 
Webb of Meadow Valley, California.
  Shawn was born on May 7, 1973 in San Diego, California and was raised 
in Descanso. He grew up in the beauty of the California wilderness. 
Shawn rode his dirt bike in the desert and learned to work on hotrods 
and tractors.
  Shawn's lifelong dream was to serve as a police officer and after 
graduating from Mountain Empire High school he entered the police 
academy. Shawn graduated from the academy in 1995 and began his lengthy 
service, first as a Reserve Officer and then as a Sworn Officer, to the 
residents of El Cajon, California as a member of the El Cajon Police 
Department. It was also in 1995 that Shawn married the love of his 
life, Chrissy, with whom he had grown up in Descanso. The couple were 
blessed with their first daughter Courtney that same year, followed two 
years later by the birth of their second daughter, Samantha.
  In 2008 the family relocated to Plumas County, California, where 
Shawn joined the Sherriff's Department as a deputy and serving with a 
kindness, compassion and purpose that affected so many on a level that 
is impossible to quantify, and hard to even imagine. In the course of 
providing this outstanding service, Shawn earned multiple citations and 
awards including the Life Saving Award, the Meritorious Unit Citation, 
nine commendations for work with vehicle theft and twice being named 
the Officer or the Month. Shawn not only fulfilled his dream to become 
a police officer, but distinguished himself as one of the finest to 
bear that title.
  In 2009, Shawn was diagnosed with highly-aggressive brain cancer and 
he began what would be a long, hard battle with that disease.

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 Mr. Speaker, Shawn was a dedicated public servant, but he was first-
and-foremost a loving father and husband and a fierce friend. Those who 
knew Shawn adored him for his generous, considerate nature and robust 
sense of humor. It was impossible not to take notice of his stature as 
we watched the community rally behind him and his family, doing all 
they could to help the man they had come to love. Sadly, last week 
Shawn's long battle with cancer came to a close. He leaves behind his 
wife of almost sixteen years, his two teenage daughters and too many 
friends to count.
  William Faulkner once said he refused to accept the concept of death 
``because [man] has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and 
sacrifice and endurance.'' Faulkner continued, saying that it is our 
duty to ensure this endurance by reminding men of ``the courage and 
honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which 
have been the glory of his past.'' Mr. Speaker, it is doubtless that 
Shawn Webb's story is one that is filled with all of the virtues that 
Faulkner described. It is my honor to rise today in his remembrance, 
and to commit to the record of history Shawn's legacy of love, service 
and honor.

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