[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 23 (Thursday, February 6, 2014)]
[House]
[Page H1684]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          SERGEANT BRIAN LALOU

  (Mr. MEEHAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. MEEHAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise on behalf of the family of Sergeant 
Brian LaLou from Chester County, Pennsylvania. Tragically, in the 
summer of 2012, Sergeant LaLou took his own life while he was at his 
duty station at the U.S. Embassy in Greece. What happened next was 
unconscionable.
  During the course of an autopsy performed by Greek authorities, his 
heart was removed and not returned to his body before it was sent home 
to his family for a proper burial. When the Greek Government finally 
sent the family a heart, it was not their son's. The DNA testing 
revealed that it belonged to someone else.
  Mr. Speaker, I wrote to the Commandant of the Marine Corps in 
December seeking answers for this young man's family. The response from 
the Pentagon so far has been silence.
  The LaLou family deserves answers. They deserve peace of mind. It is 
time for the Greek authorities and the Pentagon to tell Sergeant 
LaLou's parents what happened to their son's heart, because we know 
what happened to his family's.

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