[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11788]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  HONORING STATE TROOPER WESLEY BROWN

  (Mr. HOYER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor the memory of one of 
Maryland's finest, a member of our Maryland State Police, Maryland 
State Trooper Wesley Brown, who was shot to death without warning while 
working on an off-duty security detail in the early morning of June 11. 
He was 24 years of age.
  Though his life was cut far too short, Trooper Brown filled the years 
he was given with service to his community, mentoring young men, and 
love for his family.
  It wasn't enough for Wesley to serve as a decorated State Trooper for 
more than 3 years. He also founded an organization called ``Young Men 
Enlightening Younger Men,'' a group dedicated to teaching life and 
leadership skills to boys in Wesley's Seat Pleasant neighborhood, just 
a couple of miles from where I grew up in District Heights, Maryland.
  Many of them came to regard Trooper Brown as a father figure. ``I 
became a squared-away young man,'' said one of the pupils at his 
memorial service, ``and I'll never forget that smile.''
  Wesley Brown's death was sudden and deeply unfair, but his community 
is better because he lived, and the seeds he sowed will outlive him. As 
the pastor said in Wesley's eulogy, ``He showed us how to serve his 
brother man, and no one had to beg him to do it.''
  May all of those whom Trooper Brown left behind--his mother, Patricia 
Bell; his father, Sylvester Brown, Sr.; his fiancee, Ebony Norris; his 
seven brothers and sisters; and his grandmother, Rosella Bell--find 
comfort in the memory of his service and the greatness of his 
contribution to other young people.
  We are protected every day by those who have the courage and 
commitment and love of country and neighbors to defend us here, our 
domestic defenders. Wesley Brown was one of those. God bless his soul.

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