[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12240]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   HONORING CORPORAL KENNETH JOHNSON

  (Mr. BROWN of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BROWN of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I rise today with a heavy 
heart to honor Corporal Kenneth Johnson of the South Carolina Highway 
Patrol. Last Sunday morning, around 2:15 a.m., Corporal Johnson was 
murdered in cold blood at a traffic checkpoint at College Park Road 
near Goose Creek.
  Mr. Johnson, a 12-year veteran of the highway patrol, leaves behind a 
wife, a 13-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter.
  Kenneth Johnson was one of our Nation's best, risking his life day in 
and day out to preserve the peace and freedom that we often take for 
granted. He was a true American hero who gave his life for his country.
  Our prayers go out to his wife and children. They have lost a strong 
husband and father. In the last few days, the citizens of Moncks Corner 
have come together to take care of them in their time of greatest need, 
but they will need our help for longer than a few weeks.
  We all need to reach out to Kenneth Johnson's fellow law enforcement 
officers. It has been a tough week for them as well. I hope we come 
away from this tragedy with a renewed sense of the debt we owe to our 
law enforcement officers and with a renewed intolerance for the cruelty 
of someone who would end a life for one of South Carolina's best 
citizens.

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