[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 137 (Friday, August 19, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E861]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            LILLIAN CLAMENS

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                             HON. DON BACON

                              of nebraska

                    in the house of representatives

                        Friday, August 19, 2022

  Mr. BACON. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Staff Sergeant 
Lillian LaDae Clamens, who was born on May 9, 1972, in Omaha, NE. As a 
proud graduate of Omaha's Central High School, Lillian enlisted in the 
United States Army, and served as an Administrative Assistant 
Specialist from 1990 to 2007, eventually attaining the rank of Staff 
Sergeant.
  During this time, she served at stations in Korea, Fort Leonard Wood 
in Missouri, Germany, Fort Sill in Oklahoma, and is a combat veteran of 
Operation Iraqi Freedom. While enlisted, she took advantage of her 
travels where she encountered many different people and made lots of 
friends from diverse cultures. She greatly valued the different 
perspectives on life she learned from the people she met.
  Lillian was also an adored mother. She gave birth to her first son 
Ayinde in 1993 and later remarried to Sergeant Raymond Clamens and had 
two more children, Lana and Vitoria. As a devoted wife and a role model 
to her children, family was always at the center of her life.
  On October 10, 2007, Staff Sergeant Lillian Clamens was tragically 
killed by a mortar attack on Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq. At the 
time, she was 35 years old and had already served 17 years. Sergeant 
Clamens was posthumously awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple 
Heart.
  From the people who knew her best, Lillian was known as a woman who 
loved everyone who crossed her path and she demonstrated that when she 
sacrificed her own life to save others during the attack before she was 
tragically killed herself. As a soldier, she demonstrated the courage 
to defend American freedom, so that democracy may continue to grow and 
prosper for future generations to come.
  This past spring, I was glad to see the City of Omaha honor our 
hometown hero by renaming a stretch of Caldwell Street as ``Lillian 
Clamens (Cobbin) Street''. The renaming of this North Omaha street near 
where she grew up, will ensure our community carries on her legacy and 
brings recognition to Sergeant Clamens' heroic service and sacrifice 
for others. We owe Lillian and her family a debt of gratitude that we 
can never repay.

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