[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 9]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 11539]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             FALLEN HEROES

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                               speech of

                          HON. CHARLES F. BASS

                            of new hamshire

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 20, 2004

  Mr. BASS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Sergeant 1st Class Robert 
Edward Rooney of Nashua, New Hampshire. He bravely served the U.S. Army 
National Guard's 379th Engineer Company, supporting Operation Iraqi 
Freedom. Sgt. Ferguson made the ultimate sacrifice to protect his 
country and aid the Iraqi people when he died of injuries he sustained 
in an accident at the Shuabai Port in Kuwait on September 25, 2003.
  I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring Sergeant 1st Class Robert 
Edward Rooney and our other service men and women who have courageously 
given their own lives in order to protect and defend the democracy we 
enjoy in America and to extend the freedoms that come with democracy to 
those who live in fear and oppression worldwide.

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