[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13586]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




              WORLD WAR II VETERAN WILLIAM ``BILL'' KLING

  (Mr. DEUTCH asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DEUTCH. Madam Speaker, the south Florida community recently lost 
a hero when World War II veteran William Kling passed away at the age 
of 84.
  Bill Kling, a native New Yorker, served in the Navy during World War 
II. Throughout his life, he was an active member of the American 
Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Jewish War Veterans, and the Disabled 
American Veterans. For me, he was an inspiration and a friend.
  However, Bill is best known for his role as the president of the 
Broward County Veterans Council for 27 years. Bill's activism led to 
building of an outpatient VA clinic in Broward County, a veterans 
nursing home in Pembroke Pines, and the opening of the South Florida 
National Cemetery in 2007.
  So even as we mourn the loss of an incredible advocate, we know that 
Bill Kling's contributions live on in every veteran cared for at the 
outpatient clinic he helped to build, in every family who visits an 
elderly veteran residing at the nursing home he helped to establish, 
and in every prayer spoken at the national cemetery that he helped make 
possible.
  I join with Bill's family in mourning his loss; but on this 
anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I express the gratitude of our entire 
south Florida community that will long benefit from Bill Kling's 
tireless efforts to honor those who so bravely served our Nation.

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