[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8734]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  REMEMBERING JOSEPH WILLIAM AUBIN AND THOSE WHO HAVE SACRIFICED FOR 
                                AMERICA

  (Mr. HIMES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HIMES. Mr. Speaker, I rise to note that this week U.S. Navy 
Technician Joseph William Aubin, a young man of Bridgeport, 
Connecticut, had his name added to the Vietnam Memorial Wall just down 
the way here 46 years after he died on a flight from the Philippines to 
Vietnam. This was a solemn and happy occasion as we recognized one in a 
long line of millions of men and women who have sacrificed for us and 
for our country.
  But there's a lesson in this event. There will come a moment, 
undoubtedly, when the young men and women that are returning from 
Afghanistan and Iraq seem as lost in the midst of time as Joseph 
William Aubin does today. So this is really about us, and it's always 
been about us.
  It's about them working for our safety, our liberty, and our values. 
And it is about us to make sure that we, as people, don't succumb to 
the fact that we drift, that memory fades, and that urgency is 
unsharpened. It is about us to make sure that 20 years from now we 
remember Joseph William Aubin and those like him who sacrificed.

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