[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 195]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    HONORING SERGEANT JEREMY WRIGHT

  (Mr. PENCE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PENCE. Mr. Speaker, in December I had the privilege of leading a 
delegation of my colleagues to visit American forces serving in 
Operation Enduring Freedom in Kabul, Jalalabad and Bagram Air Force 
Base in Afghanistan.
  As we learned during our journey, Mr. Speaker, Afghanistan is a place 
where American generosity and American power are succeeding. But upon 
my return I had a grim and heartbreaking reminder of who deserves the 
credit. The American soldier. Literally, the day that I arrived back to 
work here on Capitol Hill this week, I was notified by the military and 
by his family of the combat death of Sergeant Jeremy Wright of 
Shelbyville, Indiana, an incident that claimed his life just 6 short 
weeks after arriving for duty in Afghanistan.
  It is written that no greater love has a man than this that he should 
lay down his life for his friends.
  So I conclude that Sergeant Jeremy Wright's name, like every other 
American soldier lost in the war on terror in Afghanistan and Iraq, 
Sergeant Jeremy Wright's name will be enshrined in the hearts of two 
grateful nations, the United States of America and the free Islamic 
Republic of Afghanistan, forever.

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