[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6989]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


                           HONORING ED MOODY

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                         HON. MARSHA BLACKBURN

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 24, 2008

  Mrs. BLACKBURN. Madam Speaker, this Thursday evening in Franklin, 
Tennessee, our community will gather to honor an extraordinary 
American. I ask my colleagues to join me in congratulating Ed Moody as 
he receives the Community Service Award from Williamson Christian 
College.
  Ed Moody was born and raised in Kingston Springs, Tennessee. After 
serving in the Pacific Theater in World War II, he joined his brother 
in a tire re-treading business on Main Street in Franklin. That 
business would eventually relocate to Columbia Avenue and become an 
institution in our community, Moody's Tire & Auto Service.
  Not content with running a business and raising a family, Ed embraced 
Rotary International and its motto of ``service above self.'' In his 56 
years of membership, Ed Moody has been a living example of Rotary's 
principles of encouraging service, promoting ethical conduct, applying 
the ideal of service in personal, business, and community life, and 
advancing understanding, goodwill and peace.
  Madam Speaker, I ask my colleagues to join me in celebrating the life 
of Ed Moody and congratulating him and his family on this occasion. We 
would all do well to follow his example of leaving a small piece of the 
world better than we found it.

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