[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 27 (Thursday, February 9, 2023)]
[House]
[Pages H801-H802]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           HONORING PETE REED

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in honor of Pete Reed, an 
alum

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of the Community College of Rhode Island and former U.S. Marine who was 
killed while on a humanitarian mission delivering aid to evacuees in 
Bakhmut, a besieged city in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
  Pete dedicated his life to the service of others. He deployed twice 
to the Helmand Province in Afghanistan, joined Team Rubicon after 
Hurricane Sandy, and helped to train medical teams in both Haiti and 
Iraq.
  Pete and fellow veteran Derek Coleman decided to form Global Response 
Medicine, an NGO dedicated to serving the world's most vulnerable 
people in the midst of conflict, war, or disaster after seeing the need 
for such an organization during the battle of Mosul in Iraq.
  His work brought him to Global Outreach Doctors, which he joined in 
January, to lead its efforts in Ukraine.
  A remarkable man, Pete Reed was not only a veteran and a humanitarian 
but also a mentor to CCRI students and veterans. It is impossible to 
know how many lives he touched.
  My thoughts and prayers are with Pete's entire family and all those 
who loved him and called him a friend.

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