[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 9, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H1090]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     REMEMBERING DWIGHT L. CLEMENTS

  (Mr. FORTENBERRY asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FORTENBERRY. Mr. Speaker, today, I would like to speak about a 
great Nebraskan and a great American. His name is Dwight L. Clements. 
He died last week at 102 years old.
  Dwight Clements was born in Elmwood, Nebraska, and he went on to 
study at the University of Nebraska and got a degree in business.
  But this is the interesting part, Mr. Speaker: His education was 
disrupted by World War II, where he served as an Army combat engineer 
in France until the war ended in 1945.
  After the war, Dwight earned his law degree at the University of 
Nebraska and then returned to small-town Elmwood to work at the family-
owned American Exchange Bank and to join the law firm with his father, 
Clements Law Firm. He continued in banking and law until he retired in 
1985.
  But this is the point, Mr. Speaker: Dwight Clements was a humble, 
dutiful, small-town Nebraskan. But as a member of the Greatest 
Generation, he served something far larger than himself. Through his 
sense of duty, selflessness, sacrifice, and patriotism, he represented 
the kind of person that not only holds Nebraska together but holds 
America together.
  May he rest in peace.

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