[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 11346]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                             FALLEN HEROES

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                               speech of

                           HON. JOHN SHIMKUS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 27, 2004

  Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the life of 
Corporal Forest Jostes who recently was killed in action fighting for 
freedom in Iraq.
  Corporal Jostes was a 21-year-old from Albion, Illinois who served as 
an Army Corporal with the 1st Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division from Ft. 
Hood, Texas. He was a 2000 graduate of Edwards County High School, 
after which he joined the National Guard at the age of 17. He had only 
been in Iraq for about a week, when military personnel say his Humvee 
was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, killing Jostes and the driver, 
in a suburb of Baghdad.
  Corporal Jostes is survived by his parents, Von and Diane Ibbotson; a 
sister, Michelle Lee Teeter; two brothers Benjamin L. Jostes and Evan 
R. Ibbotson; and his grandparents, John and Laura Ibbotson, Glen and 
Darlene Kellison and Norman and Shirley Costley. I am proud of the 
service this young man has given to our country and the service he and 
others are doing everyday. Not enough can be said about Corporal Jostes 
and our other brave men and women who are serving in Iraq. It is troops 
like him that are risking their lives everyday to ensure our freedom 
here at home and to others throughout the rest of the world. I salute 
him and my best wishes go out to his family and all the troops fighting 
to ensure freedom and democracy.

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