[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 130 (Friday, September 27, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H5888]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             HONORING STAFF SERGEANT TIMOTHY RAYMOND McGILL

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Staff Sergeant 
Timothy Raymond McGill, a member of the Rhode Island National Guard who 
was killed in combat last Saturday while serving as a member of the 
United States Army's elite Special Forces unit in Afghanistan.
  A life-long resident of New Jersey, Sergeant McGill enlisted in the 
Marine Corps immediately after high school and was still training in 
boot camp when terrorists struck the World Trade Center and the 
Pentagon on September 11, 2001. After serving in Iraq, he joined the 
Rhode Island National Guard as an anti-armor specialist and just 2 
years ago became a weapons sergeant with the Army Special Forces, the 
Green Berets.
  Americans are blessed to live in a free and democratic society 
because of the heroic efforts and brave sacrifices of our men and women 
in uniform and owe an especially profound debt of gratitude to those 
like Timothy who have made the ultimate sacrifice.
  We express our sincere condolences to Timothy's father, Raymond; his 
mother, Carol; and his two sisters, Megan and Lindsay. I pray that they 
find some small measure of comfort in knowing that an entire Nation is 
deeply grateful and shall keep them in our thoughts and prayers.

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