[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 111 (Friday, June 25, 2021)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E697]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            IN REMEMBRANCE OF TALLAPOOSA COUNTY GIRLS RANCH

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                            HON. MIKE ROGERS

                               of alabama

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, June 25, 2021

  Mr. ROGERS of Alabama. Madam Speaker, my colleagues from Alabama and 
I are heartbroken to mourn ten lives cut tragically short in a 
multivehicle crash in Alabama on June 19, 2021.
  Among the victims we mourn are eight children who were part of the 
Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch. The ranch's mission is to provide 
Christian, family-style residential homes for Alabama's needy, 
neglected, or abused, school-age children.
  We also ask for prayers for the ranch's director who sustained 
injuries in the crash.
  The countless success stories from the Tallapoosa County Girls Ranch 
program are a testament to the leadership and community they have built 
over more than five decades.
  The victims' families, and our entire community, is devastated by 
this loss, but comforted in the knowledge that they are now in the 
loving arms of Jesus.
  I thank my colleagues for joining me here today to show support for a 
loss that has rocked our whole state. Please continue to pray for those 
lives lost and those still recovering.

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