[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 75 (Monday, May 19, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H4438-H4439]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         REMEMBERING THE SACRIFICES OF OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, in recognition of Armed Forces Day and 
Memorial Day this month, we offer our

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deepest gratitude to those who have selflessly dedicated their lives 
protecting our freedom. In particular, I want to remember Second 
Lieutenant Walter Truemper and Lieutenant Colonel William Robert 
Holstine, both of Aurora, Illinois.
  Army Air Force Second Lieutenant and Medal of Honor recipient 
Truemper was honored this Armed Forces Day with the naming of Walter E. 
Truemper Lane in Aurora. As navigator of a B-17 bomber during World War 
II, Truemper was ordered to abandon his plane following German gunfire 
which killed the copilot. But as the pilot remained alive but immobile, 
he refused to desert the plane. Unfortunately, after three attempts to 
land the plane, it fatally crashed.
  Lieutenant Colonel Holstine earned several awards for his 29 years of 
service to the Army and was an avid runner, a military science 
professor at Wheaton College, and a project manager for the Army 
Reserve. Lieutenant Colonel Holstine lost his battle with cancer this 
February. I am privileged to be honoring him and his wife at Kane 
County's Memorial Day ceremonies next week.

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