[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 79 (Thursday, June 6, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H3229]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  HONORING SECOND LIEUTENANT JUSTIN SISSON AND ARMY SPECIALIST ROBERT 
                              ALLAN PIERCE

  (Mr. YODER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. YODER. Mr. Speaker, today, I rise to recognize two of America's 
finest heroes.
  I was saddened to learn of the death of 23-year-old Second Lieutenant 
Justin Sisson. Second Lieutenant Sisson graduated from Blue Valley West 
High School in Overland Park, Kansas, a suburb of the Third District, 
which I represent. Sisson was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 506th 
Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division as 
an assistant operations officer out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
  Deployed to Afghanistan with less than a year of Active Duty, Sisson, 
along with Army Specialist Robert Allan Pierce of Panama, Oklahoma, was 
killed on Monday by a suicide vehicle-borne improvised explosive 
device.
  With the deaths of Second Lieutenant Justin Sisson and Specialist 
Robert Pierce, we are once again reminded that freedom is not free. As 
Americans, we owe a debt of gratitude to these brave men that we simply 
cannot repay.
  Second Lieutenant Sisson and Specialist Pierce will forever be known 
as patriots and heroes whose sacrifice will never be forgotten.

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