[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 12]
[Senate]
[Page 16235]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING OUR ARMED FORCES


                    Staff Sergeant Tricia L. Jameson

  Mr. HAGEL. Mr. President, I rise to express my sympathy over the loss 
of Tricia L. Jameson of Omaha, NE, a staff sergeant medic in the 
Nebraska Army National Guard. Staff Sergeant Jameson was killed by an 
explosion after stopping to treat wounded Marines on July 14 near 
Trebil in western Iraq. She was 34 years old.
  Staff Sergeant Jameson grew up in St. Paul, NE, before moving to 
Omaha as a teenager. She graduated from Millard South High School in 
1989 and attended Central Community College at Columbus, NE, from 1990-
91. She spent the last 10 years in the military, working the last 5 
years as a health care specialist at the Nebraska Air National Guard 
base clinic in Lincoln, NE. Staff Sergeant Jameson was a member of the 
313th Medical Company of Lincoln and was mobilized to duty in Iraq less 
than a month ago. Staff Sergeant Jameson volunteered for the 
assignment. She was not a regular member of the group but a replacement 
for another soldier. Staff Sergeant Jameson will be remembered as a 
loyal soldier who had a strong sense of duty, honor, and love of 
country. Thousands of brave Americans like Staff Sergeant Jameson are 
currently serving in Iraq.
  Staff Sergeant Jameson was preceded in death by her father, Robert 
Jameson. She is survived by her mother Patricia Marsh of Omaha: 
brother, Rob Jameson of Omaha; grandmothers Kathryn Jameson of Weeping 
Water, NE, and Annamae Donahue of Omaha; and fiance Mike Coldewey of 
Omaha. Our thoughts and prayers are with them at this difficult time. 
America is proud of Staff Sergeant Jameson's heroic service and mourns 
her loss.
  I ask my colleagues to join me and all Americans in honoring SSG 
Tricia L. Jameson.

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