[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 12, 2016)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E38]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      A TRIBUTE TO VIOLET ANTISDEL

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                            HON. DAVID YOUNG

                                of iowa

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, January 12, 2016

  Mr. YOUNG of Iowa. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Violet 
Antisdel on the celebration of her 102nd birthday. Violet celebrated 
her birthday on December 24, 2015 in Creston, Iowa.
  Our world has changed a great deal during the course of Violet's 
life. Since her birth, we have revolutionized air travel and walked on 
the moon. We have invented the television, cellular phones, and the 
internet. We have fought in wars overseas, seen the rise and fall of 
Soviet communism, and witnessed the birth of new democracies. Violet 
has lived through seventeen United States Presidents and twenty-one 
Governors of Iowa. In her lifetime, the population of the United States 
has more than tripled.
  Mr. Speaker, it is an honor to represent Violet in the United States 
Congress and it is my pleasure to wish her a very happy 102nd birthday. 
I ask that my colleagues in the United States House of Representatives 
join me in congratulating Violet for reaching this incredible milestone 
and in wishing her nothing but the best.

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