[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 14]
[Senate]
[Page 19136]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      TRIBUTE TO HAROLD O. BOURNE

 Mr. KOHL. Mr. President, several weeks back I had the great 
pleasure of visiting with a constituent I would like to honor today. 
Milwaukee resident Harold O. Bourne recently received the Federal 
Aviation Administration's Wright Brothers Master Pilot award for flying 
50 years without incident.
  Mr. Bourne has given much to his country over the years. He enlisted 
in the U.S. Army in 1951, entered flight school in 1953 and served one 
tour in Korea, two tours in Germany and two tours in Vietnam. In 1980, 
after 30 years of service he retired from the Army as a lieutenant 
colonel and master army aviator. Upon his retirement, he moved to 
Milwaukee where his love for and expertise in aviation was put to good 
use. Mr. Bourne embarked on what would become a 20-year career with 
Astronautics Corporation of America, a world leader in supplying 
military and commercial electronics for aviation.
  At 78, Mr. Bourne is still flying. He is a gentleman in the truest 
sense of the word. Harold and his wife of 57 years, Anne, have given 
much of themselves over the years, not only to aviation but to their 
community and their church. And for that I congratulate and honor 
them.

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