[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 12]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 17213-17214]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                   A TRIBUTE TO A VETERAN, HERB KING

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                            HON. BOB FILNER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, September 6, 2000

  Mr. FILNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Mr. Herb King who 
is being honored on September 8th at the California Gay Veterans 
Memorial Dinner as the winner of the Sheila Kuehl Leadership Award.
  Herb is a long-time friend. He was born in September, 1918 and 
graduated from the Boston Latin School, the oldest public school in the 
United States. He attended the University of Massachusetts in Amherst 
and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in June, 
1940 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology and Public Health.
  He went on active duty as a reserve Army Second Lieutenant in October 
of 1940. When Pearl Harbor was attacked the following December, he 
volunteered for field duty, served in the North African and Italian 
campaigns, and reached the rank of Major and a Battalion Commander.
  At the Quartermaster Subsistence Research Laboratory in Chicago, Herb 
developed the formula for a concentrated ration that was designated as 
the ``K'' Ration, based on his

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last name. After World War II, he became an industrial engineer in the 
food industry, designing food processing plants. He retired over 20 
years ago.
  Herb has been on the executive board of the California Democratic 
Party, twice a delegate to the Democratic. National Convention, a 
member of the Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Veterans of America since it 
was founded in 1990, and a founding member and participant of the 
Federation of Gay Games. He was one of four gay and lesbian veterans 
who participated in a nation-wide bus tour in 1993, promoting equal 
rights for gays and lesbians in military service. Herb currently writes 
a regular column for the San Diego Gay and Lesbian Times and is a 
member of the San Diego Gay and Lesbian Band.
  The Sheila Kuehl Leadership Award that Herb is receiving is named for 
California State Assemblymember Sheila Kuehl. The proceeds from this 
Memorial Dinner will be dedicated to building California's first 
Lesbian Gay and Bisexual Veterans Memorial in Palm Springs.
  As a Member of the House Veterans' Affairs Committee, I am pleased to 
recognize Herb King for his military service to our nation and for his 
friendship and support.

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