[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6283]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               TRIBUTE TO HONOR FLIGHT NORTHERN COLORADO

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                           HON. CORY GARDNER

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                          Tuesday, May 8, 2012

  Mr. GARDNER. Mr. Speaker, I rise on the occasion of Honor Flight 
Northern Colorado's eighth flight to Washington, D.C. bringing Veterans 
of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam to see their memorials. On behalf of a 
grateful delegation, state, and country, we welcome these heroes.
  The 122 Veterans on this flight include 48 from the Korea conflict, 
and 8 Purple Heart recipients from the Vietnam War. The Honor Flight 
program, founded in 2005, was intended to first honor all WWII Veterans 
that could make the trips, but then to afford the same to those from 
the Korea and Vietnam eras. We are, this day, honoring those Veterans 
from Korea (the Forgotten War) and Vietnam, our longest conflict in 
modern times, as they get to see their memorials. These trips are 
provided to our Veterans at no cost to them or their families.
  The fact that these soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines, and Coast 
Guardsmen would uproot themselves from their homes and families and put 
themselves in harm's way for our country is very humbling. The 
sacrifices they--and the families they left behind--made are truly 
incredible. The debt of gratitude we owe them can never be repaid, for 
without their honor, courage, commitment, and above all--sacrifice we 
would not able to enjoy the freedoms have today.
  Please join me in thanking Charles Agnew, Lewis Ashcraft, Robert 
Barnd, Eugene Bonkiewicz, Carson Bright, Frank Brown, Wayne Bullock, 
William Castor, Lowell Dart, Donald Draxler, Robert Duntsch, Jose 
Duran, Joseph Edwards, George Emerick, Jack Endacott, Marvin Fowler, 
Robert Gillham, Warren Garst, Joseph Graham, William Hampton, Walter 
Hayword, Roland Kaiser, Willis Kramer, Victor Lazar, David Leon, Verne 
Lewellen, Harry Livingston, Mary Livingston, Gilbert Lopez, Russell 
Mam, W. Dennis McHenry, Raymond Mega, Gerald Monroe, Donald Morrison, 
Bernard Nettesheim, Reynolds Olson, Homer Phillips Jr., Richard Porter, 
Marion Raines, James Rauenbuehler, Frederick Reck, Gilbert Rohde, 
Walter Sapp, Henry Schmitt Jr., John Shedd, Alan Schultes, Bill Shupe, 
Waldo Smith, Charles Smoot, Fredrick Stein, William Stromberg Sr., Gene 
Thorson, Clyde Treadway, Theodore Wahler, Arthur Wartburg, Crowell 
Werner, James White, Robert Williams, Evans Woodhouse, Darryl Anderson, 
Raymond Anderson, Donald Armagost, James Ball, Eugene Ball, Harry Ball, 
Leslie Brumley, Orlis Charboneau, Dale Crist, Robert Cupp, Timothy 
Daley, Bobbie Desmond, Edward Eson, Clarence Ehrlich, Alvin Eurich, 
Francis Fleming, Jr., James Flynn, Leslie Fraley, Jr., George Frysinger 
III, Richard Gero, John Goad, Virgil Hanson, Roman Herrmann, John Hess, 
Billy Hettinger, Donald Hoffner, Marguerite Ingram, Robert Kramer, 
Robert Kruger, Lindy Leifheit, Chester McCoy, Chester McGuire, William 
Miller, Raymond Nuss, James Ochsner, Louis Peterson, Marshall Petring, 
Arnold Piel, Wayne Pimple, Richard Reagan, Gerald Rice, Harry Rieger, 
Edward Roebuck, Gerald Ross, Alan Seaman, Dick Sears, Joseph Sellers, 
William Shirey, Norris Slechta, Robert Stanley, Elizabeth Strahan, 
Clarence Strahan, Jr., William Striffler, Darrell Viegut, Sam Warner, 
Doyle Biggs, Paul Delgado, Edward Fast, Dennis Henneberg, Donald Hess, 
Daniel Menzies, Jack Roberts and Steven White for their dedication, 
commitment, and service to this great nation.

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