[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 146 (Friday, August 14, 2020)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E762]
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             HONORING THE LIFE AND SERVICE OF FRANK ZALLER

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                           HON. MARK E. GREEN

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, August 14, 2020

  Mr. GREEN of Tennessee. Madam Speaker, I rise today to recognize Mr. 
Frank Zaller of Bolivar, Tennessee on the occasion of his one hundredth 
birthday.
  Frank Zaller is a member of what has rightly been called our Greatest 
Generation. He grew up in the midst of a Great Depression at home and 
rising tensions around the world. When he was twenty-one, the Japanese 
attacked Pearl Harbor and he signed up to join the United States Navy 
and sailed off into the Pacific theater.
  During that campaign, Mr. Zaller served with the Third Marine 
Division as a Navy Corpsman in the Battle of Iwo Jima, providing 
lifesaving medical care to the wounded in one of the fiercest battles 
of the entire war. He continued his service as a corpsman during the 
Korean War at the pivotal victory at Inchon.
  Mr. Zaller served in the Navy for twenty-nine years, including his 
service in WWII and Korea, and he finished out his career as the 
Administrator of the Philadelphia Naval Hospital. After leaving the 
Navy, he worked as the Assistant Commissioner of Tennessee's Department 
of Mental Health before serving as the Administrator of the Western 
State Mental Health Hospital in Bolivar until his retirement in 1980. 
Frank and his wife Helen raised seven children together over the course 
of a loving marriage spanning nearly seven decades, and he enjoys 
spending time with his many children and grandchildren.
  The American people are forever indebted to those of the Greatest 
Generation, like Frank Zaller, who answered the call of duty and 
stepped up to defend freedom in its darkest hour. The freedom and 
prosperity we enjoy today are the result of the courage of heroes like 
Mr. Zaller. On behalf of the United States Congress, I wish to commend 
Frank Zaller for his lifetime of faithful service to our nation and to 
the people of Tennessee, and I congratulate him on the momentous 
occasion of his one-hundredth birthday.

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