[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 15]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 20567-20568]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 RECOGNITION OF STAFF SGT. DAVID LYNCH

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                            HON. MAC COLLINS

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Thursday, October 10, 2002

  Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, last Saturday, 19-year-old Adam Gresham was 
swimming in the hotel pool at the Lafayette Garden Inn, in LaGrange, 
Georgia. Young Adam drowned in that pool, his breathing and pulse both 
stopped.
  Not far from the hotel is the LaGrange-Callaway Airport, where 
spectators were enjoying an air show as part of the Delta Airlines 
Flyin and Airfest. Staff Sergeant Jason Lynch, is a U.S. Air Force A-10 
mechanic with the 23rd Fighter Group at Pope Air Force Base, North 
Carolina, which was part of a demonstration team for the air show. 
SSgt. Lynch was staying at the hotel when he heard screams coming from 
the pool area. He immediately dropped what he was doing and responded. 
When he arrived, guests Barry Stetson and Neil Gray of Wanchese, N.C. 
and Roger Melville, of Stanley, N.C. were lifting the lifeless body of 
Adam from the pool. Calmly,

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Staff Sergeant Lynch asked onlookers to call 911 and began 
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation on Adam, which he continued until 
emergency medical services arrived.
  According to the Institute of Critical Medicine, the average survival 
rate for those receiving CPR is about three percent. That means that 
only 3 out of every 100 people needing CPR survive.
  I am pleased to say that Adam Gresham is one of those lucky few.
  Because of Staff Sergeant Lynch's quick thinking and level head, Adam 
Gresham, although still listed in critical condition at Western Georgia 
Medical Center, is alive today.
  I would like to commend Staff Sergeant Lynch and the others for their 
heroic act and to encourage those hearing these comments to make the 
effort to learn this vital life-saving skill which saves thousands of 
lives each year.

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