[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 123 (Wednesday, September 18, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H5626-H5627]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          HONORING LIEUTENANT COLONEL ALFRED VELAZQUEZ RASCON

  (Mr. WALZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WALZ. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the heroic efforts of 
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Velazquez Rascon of the United States Army.
  Lieutenant Rascon was a medic with the 173rd Airborne and was awarded 
the Medal of Honor for extraordinary courage in action on March 16, 
1966, in Vietnam. The following is directly from his commendation:

       Disregarding heavy enemy fire, Lieutenant Colonel Rascon 
     rushed to the aid of wounded machine gunners and placed 
     himself as a shield between himself and the enemy. After 
     saving two men, he entered the line of enemy fire to retrieve 
     an abandoned machine-gun, allowing for suppressing fire while 
     he treated the wounded. When the sergeant of the platoon went 
     down with injuries, Lieutenant Colonel Rascon once again 
     placed himself as a shield between the wounded man and the 
     enemy. Although sustaining multiple wounds himself, 
     Lieutenant Colonel Rascon refused to leave the field until 
     the last had been treated.


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  Lieutenant Colonel Rascon came out of retirement and joined the 
United States Army Reserves and served this Nation in both Iraq and 
Afghanistan in our recent conflicts.
  It is for his amazing valor and heroism that I am proud and humbled 
to honor and remember the actions of Lieutenant Colonel Alfred 
Velazquez Rascon.

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