[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 10, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H127-H128]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   WELCOME HOME, LONNIE EICHELBERGER

  (Mr. OLSON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, the men and women who defend our country have 
one sacred creed: leave no one behind, and they all come home.
  It took 72 years and 234 days, but today, at Houston's VA cemetery, 
Lonnie Eichelberger came home.
  At 16, Lonnie left China Spring, Texas, to fight the Nazis and Adolph

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Hitler in Germany in World War II. He was a Buffalo Soldier, the all-
Black 92nd Division of our Army. He never returned to see his family.
  His remains were found in Italy in 1945, but they could not be 
identified. So Lonnie, for 17 years, was known as ``Unknown X-193.''
  In 2016, his remains were identified. At 11:15 a.m. this morning, 
Texas time, Lonnie was laid to eternal rest.
  Welcome home, soldier.

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