[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 5]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 6673]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  NEW HOPE: IN HONOR OF AN AMERICAN HERO, CORPORAL MARK LITYNSKI, 3-5 
                       LIMA COMPANY, MARINE CORPS

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                          HON. TIMOTHY J. WALZ

                              of minnesota

                    in the house of representatives

                          Friday, May 11, 2012

  Mr. WALZ of Minnesota. Mr. Speaker, I submit the following for the 
Record:

                                New Hope

     From out of that darkness of most evil war!
     From out of that pain and such heartache that one must 
           endure!
     From out of that death and destruction,
     and oh such suffering of all the more!
     As from out of this most dreadful of gores!
     Come, all of those and their loved ones . . .
     whose daily lives are but filled with such anguish for sure!
     And from out of all of this,
     must now all somehow, someway so endure!
     To find the strength and the courage, to rebuild with not 
           much more!
     Then Hope to insure!
     As comes their most swollen of tears so for sure!
     That which their Mothers and Fathers,
     their so Sisters and Brothers,
     and their Husbands and Wives,
     and all of their most precious of all Children whose eyes 
           must now pour!
     And just when all so seems lost!
     All out of this darkness of war, with its most tragic of all 
           costs!
     With but nothing so left,
     but to so cling to Hope to so bless!
     To so give us the strength to take just one more most 
           courageous of steps!
     But, comes only our very best of the best!
     Our most brightest of all lights, as are you Mark so yes!
     So shining above all of the rest!
     Such brilliance, to all of our souls to caress!
     That with all of your courage Mark,
     our Nation you have so blessed!
     Bringing Hope, from out of your most magnificent heart's 
           breath!
     So splendid and pure, so very special for sure!
     Giving us Hope!
     With something which so reaches so deep down inside all of 
           our souls!
     To have and to hold, which so helped you to so somehow 
           endure!
     While, against all the odds Mark . . . your victory it now so 
           insured!
     With that kind of Hope, that which so let's one so march off 
           to war!
     And come back home from a battlefields of honor so injured,
     and still somehow to give more!
     With Such New Hope!
     All In Your Profiles In Courage!
     All in what you so bore!
     Teaching us all, what Heaven is for!
     And Heather, your most magnificent wife!
     all in her devotion and love, and so selfless sacrifice!
     Standing by her Man!
     Bringing tears to even our Lord eyes!
     Yes Mark, with all of your Hope and fine faith . . .
     You have, to all of us so shown us the way!
     Because, no matter the cost . . .
     your fine heart would never so wave!
     As we've so watched you Mark,
     so heroically moving onward day after day!
     To So Teach Us!
     To So Reach Us!
     To So Beseech Us!
     All in what your fine heart has all to say!
     All in your Most Splendid Shades of Green . . .
     Ooo . . . Rah, Jar Head!
     For you are but a Marine's Marine!
     Because, all in you . . .
     There Is New Hope for all human beings!
     And you and your family,
     are some of the best things that this county has ever seen!
     Coming back without an arm and both of your legs . . .
     Teaching us all about,
     what the word selfless sacrifice all so conveys!
     As on that morning when you so awoke . . .
     All there in that darkness,
     as it was there somehow that you so found such Hope!
     That so gave you the strength,
     all in what your fine heart so meant . . .
     but to so help your fine soul to somehow to cope!
     Showing us all,
     the very meaning of the word Hope!
     And as we look into your eyes,
     it's the tears we now find . . .
     As so easily you could of so given up,
     or so given in and so died!
     And yet instead,
     you so chose all in your most gallant heart to so keep Hope 
           alive!
     Because, just in a few short month's my son . . .
     Marine . . . already, look what you've done!
     And look at all of what you've so begun!
     As you've climbed mountains!
     Took beaches!
     Won major battles, to so beseech us!
     So Fearless! So Brave!
     For Mark, you are one of America's greatest of all son's!
     And you and your fine wife,
     shining there ever so bright . . .
     have so shone us all how so to behave!
     As you've come so far and so fast,
     all from that grave of a past!
     Shining like a Star,
     to so carry our heart's far!
     Yea Mark . . . That's who you are, A Shining Star!
     A Star of Hope!
     And as long as one finds, so very deep down inside . . .
     That kind of courage and strength!
     From all of that Hope and what it so meant!
     Then, so surely, there is no mountain that we can not so 
           climb!
     With New Hope we will find!

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