[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 174 (Tuesday, December 10, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H7620]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 MEMORIALIZING HILTON ``HANK'' REYNOLDS

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, during the month of December, we oftentimes 
take time to memorialize what happened on December 7, 1941. 
Unfortunately, the survivors of Pearl Harbor, we are losing them more 
and more each year.
  Today I would like to memorialize a friend from the Shasta County 
area of Northern California, Hank Reynolds, who we lost just recently. 
He was a gentleman who faithfully turned out each year to memorialize 
Pearl Harbor on the courthouse steps in Redding, California.
  He was, at one time, the chairman of the California Pearl Harbor 
Survivors Association and always was there with a sharp salute. Even 
though these gentlemen are in their late eighties and early nineties 
now, they always would turn out and encourage us, encourage the youth 
that day to memorialize and remember that.
  Hank served on the USS Detroit and was right in the middle of it 
there, ships on either side of him being attacked. They were about to 
go out on leave that Sunday morning, and he returned back to his post 
and helped fight that battle that day.
  So I will miss Hank. I really enjoyed his company and seeing him at 
those events. I know our country is greater for having had them serve 
for us at that time, and we memorialize them here today.

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