[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 17 (Monday, January 27, 2020)]
[House]
[Pages H539-H540]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          HONORING GLENN SMITH

  (Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. GONZALEZ of Ohio. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize the 
life of U.S. Navy veteran Glenn Smith, a Stark County World War II 
veteran who passed away last week at the age of 95.
  Glenn was a Navy Seabee and served our country from August 1943 to 
July 1945. He was born in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, where his 
father was a coal miner for over 50 years.
  In a story familiar to many in the heartland, Glenn made it through 
the Great Depression by scrapping steel for extra money. He would grow 
up to be part of the greatest generation to ever live, the generation 
that freed the world from tyranny.
  Glenn was drafted into the Navy at age 19 and shipped out alongside 
7,600 other men to Honolulu on Christmas Eve 1943. Glenn would go on to 
serve in the Pacific theater and, at the end of the war, was flown from 
Saipan to Pearl Harbor, where he took the USS Constellation home.
  My office had the honor of presenting Glenn, in October of last year, 
with his military service medals earned during World War II. Glenn 
received the World War II Victory Medal and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign 
Medal.
  Madam Speaker, today we remember Glenn's life and service and thank 
him

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for all he did to protect this great Nation.

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