[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 172 (Wednesday, October 30, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H8666]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          HONORING MARINE CORPS RESERVE PFC KENNETH W. LIKENS

  (Mr. LEVIN of Michigan asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LEVIN of Michigan. Mr. Speaker, last week, I experienced one of 
the true honors of my time in Congress. I participated in the burial of 
Marine Corps Reserve Private First Class Kenneth W. Likens of Mount 
Clemens, Michigan.
  Private Likens died fighting to protect the freedoms of all of us on 
the third day of the Battle of Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands in 
the Pacific theater during World War II.
  Incredibly, his remains, which have been missing for 75 years, were 
identified in May, thanks to the tireless and underappreciated efforts 
of Hero Flight, which refuses to give up the fight to bring democracy's 
heroes home.
  I was so moved to attend this dignified and solemn ceremony at Great 
Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Michigan, and to meet PFC Likens' 
nearest surviving relative, Kenneth Dolan, who was named for his uncle, 
the lost soldier.
  PFC Likens is lost no more. He now rests in peace where he belongs, 
in the land of the free and the home of the brave.

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