[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 19]
[House]
[Page 25984]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   WORLD WAR I VETERAN KENNETH MEYERS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, when Kenneth Meyers was born in 1889, Teddy 
Roosevelt was charging up San Juan Hill, the airplane had not been 
invented, and electricity was a novelty. Kenneth Meyers, at 107, is the 
oldest surviving World War I veteran in Texas. There are less than 50 
World War I veterans in all of the United States.
  Meyers joined the Navy as a teenager in 1917 and served aboard the 
Battleship Oklahoma in World War I until 1919. Meyers, who lives in 
Houston, says he was proud to serve in the ``War to End All Wars.''
  After the Navy, Meyers earned his masters degree, became an 
agricultural expert for Uncle Sam, and even helped farmers as far away 
as Greece. He herded cattle in Wyoming, and he still owns land there.
  As we honor American veterans, we appreciate the generations of 
sailors and doughboys in World War I who adopted the song ``Over 
There'' that states, in part, ``Send the word to beware, that the Yanks 
are coming, the Yanks are coming and we won't come back 'til its over, 
over there.''
  Mr. Speaker, like warriors since then, those Yanks got the job done 
for freedom and only came back when it was over, over there. That's 
just the way it is.

                          ____________________