[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 131 (Friday, September 28, 2012)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1672]
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                        TRIBUTE TO RAMONA ESBECK

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                            HON. TOM LATHAM

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 28, 2012

  Mr. LATHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize and congratulate 
Ramona Esbeck on the coming celebration of her 100th birthday. Ramona 
will celebrate a century of life on October 7th, 2012.
  Our world has changed a great deal during the course of Ramona's 
life. Since her birth, we have revolutionized air travel and walked on 
the moon. We have invented the television, cellular phones and the 
internet. We have fought in wars overseas, seen the rise and fall of 
Soviet communism and witnessed the birth of new democracies. Ramona has 
lived through eighteen United States Presidents and twenty-two 
Governors of Iowa. In her lifetime, the population of the United States 
has more than tripled.
  Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to represent Ramona in the United States 
Congress and it is my pleasure to wish her a very happy 100th birthday. 
I invite my colleagues in the House to join me in congratulating Ms. 
Esbeck on reaching this incredible milestone, and wishing her even more 
health and happiness in the years to come.

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