[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 113 (Wednesday, July 13, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Page S5068]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 TRIBUTE TO DR. HAROLD E. SHUFFLEBARGER

  Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I wish to pay tribute to my 
constituent, Dr. Harold E. Shufflebarger, for his exemplary dedication 
to duty and service to the U.S. Navy and to the United States of 
America. He has spent his life serving his Nation and his community, 
and I would like to recognize him today.
  Harold Shufflebarger was born and raised in Grayson, KY. At the age 
of 20, he became a Navy corpsman, serving from 1943-1945 as part of the 
4th Division, 24th Marines. Dr. Shufflebarger's combat record in World 
War II was exemplary; in the short space of one year, he participated 
in four major amphibious assaults, during which his unit won two 
Presidential citations. In February 1944, he conducted an assault 
landing onto Roi-Namur Island in the northern part of the Kwajalein 
atoll of the Marshall Islands. From June to August 1944, Dr. 
Shufflebarger assaulted onto the Saipan and Tinian Islands of the 
Northern Mariana Islands. Harold's heroic actions culminated in the 
historic amphibious assault onto the island of Iwo Jima in February of 
1945.
  After valiantly serving his country, Dr. Shufflebarger returned home 
to Grayson, KY, and became a family practitioner. For over 50 years, he 
served as a physician in northeastern Kentucky, a region without many 
medical providers.
  Dr. Shufflebarger has served his community throughout his life. He 
founded a regional radio station that won four National Association of 
Broadcasters Crystal Radio Awards for community service, and he served 
as mayor of Grayson. Dr. Shufflebarger is a great example of the 
Greatest Generation putting country and community before self.
  On behalf of a grateful Commonwealth and a grateful nation, I join my 
colleagues today in recognizing and commending Dr. Harold E. 
Shufflebarger for over seven decades of service to his country and to 
his community. We keep Dr. Shufflebarger's health in our thoughts and 
prayers, and we wish him; his wife, Hazel; his daughter, Alicia; his 
son, Eric; and his four grandchildren the best.

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