[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23934]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         HONORING THE AMERICANS FALLEN IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Emanuel) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. EMANUEL. Madam Speaker, yesterday we marked a solemn milestone: 
over 2,000 American military personnel have now given their lives 
fighting in Iraq. 246 Americans have also fallen in the line of duty in 
Afghanistan.
  We owe these brave men and women and their families a debt of 
gratitude that can never fully be repaid. In July of this year, I led a 
bipartisan group of 21 Members of Congress in reading the names of the 
fallen into the Congressional Record. Tonight we continue this tribute 
by reading the names of some of those who have fallen recently to 
complete the list.
  At that point we had said we would read every American's name as an 
official part of the Congressional Record. In the words of President 
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, each of these heroes stands in the unbroken 
line of patriots who have dared to die that freedom might live and grow 
and increase in its blessings.
  God bless each of them and keep each of the brave Americans whose 
memory we honor tonight in our hearts: 1st Sergeant Alan Nye Gifford, 
Specialist David H. Ford IV, Staff Sergeant Regilio E. Nelom, Sergeant 
1st Class Lawrence E. Morrison, Specialist William L. Evans, Specialist 
William V. Fernandez, Sergeant Michael Egan, 1st Lieutenant Mark H. 
Dooley, Sergeant Pierre A. Raymond, Staff Sergeant William Alvin Allers 
III, Sergeant Travis M. Arndt, Specialist Scott P. McLaughlin, 
Specialist Kevin M. Jones, Specialist Mike T. Sonoda Jr., Sergeant Paul 
C. Neubauer, Sergeant Andrew Joseph Derrick, Sergeant Brian E. Dunlap, 
Staff Sergeant Daniel R. Schelle, Sergeant Shawn A. Graham, Sergeant 
Kenneth G. Ross, Sergeant Tane T. Baum, Warrant Officer Adrian B. 
Stump, Sergeant Patrick D. Stewart, Chief Warrant Officer John M. 
Flynn, Sergeant 1st Class Casey E. Howe, Master Sergeant Tulsa T. 
Tuliau, Private Elijah M. Ortega, Sergeant Andrew P. Wallace, 
Specialist Michael J. Wendling, Sergeant Howard P. Allen, Lance 
Corporal Steven A. Valdez, Staff Sergeant Robert F. White, Staff 
Sergeant Jason A. Benford, Private 1st Class Oliver J. Brown, 
Specialist Lee A. Wiegand, Sergeant Eric W. Slebodnik, Staff Sergeant 
George A. Pugliese, Staff Sergeant Daniel L. Arnold, Airman 1st Class 
Elizabeth N. Jacobson, Sergeant Steve Morin Jr., Sergeant 1st Class 
James J. Stoddard Jr., Staff Sergeant John G. Doles, Staff Sergeant 
Jens E. Schelbert, Specialist Joshua J. Kynoch, Sergeant Marshall A. 
Westbrook, Staff Sergeant Timothy J. Roark, Sergeant Larry Wayne Pankey 
Jr., Private 1st Class Roberto C. Baez, Specialist Jacob T. 
Vanderbosch, Sergeant Bryan W. Large, Corporal John R. Stalvey, 
Sergeant Sean B. Berry, Petty Officer 2nd Class Brian K. Joplin, 
Private 1st Class Andrew D. Bedard, Lance Corporal Carl L. Raines II.
  Madam Speaker, in the words of Abraham Lincoln, who wrote to the 
mother of five fallen soldiers in the Civil War, ``I pray that our 
Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave 
you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn 
pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the 
alter of freedom.''
  I would also like to thank the brave men and women who continue to 
serve our Nation in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the world, and 
serve their country with distinction and honor. Our thoughts and 
prayers and gratitude are with you and your families at this time until 
you return home.
  Madam speaker, in case I mispronounced any names of any of the 
individuals, I apologize to them and their family. This brings us to 
little over 2,136 names read out of the 2,246.

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