[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages 16292-16293]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      IN HONOR OF LCPL SEAN ADAMS

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                           HON. DOUG COLLINS

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                        Monday, October 28, 2013

  Mr. COLLINS of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor one of 
Georgia's most heroic sons, Combat Engineer LCpl Sean Adams of 1 CEB, 
1/8 United States Marine Corps. LCpl Adams is from my District in 
Gainesville. In Helmond, Afghanistan, LCpl Adams or Big Country, as he 
is called by his platoon, stepped on a 25-pound IED. It nearly killed 
him. He lay there in the field for sixty minutes before the air evac 
arrived. He lost both of his legs and sustained numerous other life 
threatening injuries. He has come back from the dead after 17 months at 
Walter Reed Hospital. His courage and his family's support have helped 
pull him from the abyss. He has a passion for football, baseball and 
his Georgia Bull Dogs. He possesses a need for speed; he loves stock 
cars and racing. He plans to start a business related to cars when he 
gets back home. I submit this poem penned in his honor by Albert 
Caswell.

                      A Pedal to the Metal Marine

                          (By Albert Caswell)

     A . . .
     A Pedal!
     A Pedal To The Metal Marine!
     Built for honor!
     Built for speed!
     Being a grunt,
     is but his most heroic of all creeds!
     As a Sapper all out on the hunt!
     Oh what a combination,
     a Bull Dog and a Devil Dog,
     to so confront the enemy all at speed!
     Clearing the way both night and day!
     When every moment counts,
     that full amount . . .
     all for his Band of Brothers in need!
     So serving his home of the brave,
     and land of the free,
     as one fine Georgian United States Marine!
     All in search of the enemy!
     From 0 to 60 Sean,
     was built for speed!
     As one who so locks and loads!
     As one who so lives by a code!
     A code of Strength In Honor,
     all in those most magnificent shades of green!
     For he's bad to the bone!
     As he puts it to the floor!
     While, all at speeds himself he'd so ignore!
     Big Country was Georgia born,
     and Georgia bred!
     Whose colors would not so run even as his blood ran red!
     As he loves his stock cars,
     and his Bull Dogs!
     And loves his country music,
     as ever so courageously forth he so charged!
     And maybe Toby Keith,
     might write a song about him, that bard!
     Who so heroically answered his Nation's call!
     That Call to War!
     But for The Greater Good,
     as himself he so ignored!
     To so wear those most heroic shades of green!
     To become,
     one of Nation's greatest of all things!
     A United States Georgia Bull Dog Devil Dog Marine!
     Oh rahhh!
     A Bull Dog and a Devil Dog,
     there's nothing more Dognatious so as seen!
     All for God and Country Big Country,
     you have so fought and bled!
     And you have given up so much lying,
     lying there so very close to death!
     All in what your Strength In Honor has so said!
     Let's look under the hood!
     And see that engine that we call his heart,
     which so gives Sean all of that power he so needs to start!
     Start all over again!
     From 0 to 60 like no one could!
     Yea you're not getting close!
     As he puts that pedal to the metal,
     oh what a turbo boost!
     So sapping all those in his path to recovery!
     Making pain and heartache disappear at all speeds!
     To get him to the finish line and victory!
     With a force of nature,
     that which so made the enemy grieve!
     For he's a bad boy,
     who on a battlefield of honor so lived his creed!
     Turbo charged putting it into high gear,
     as into those turns as he'd gain speed!
     Marching forth so all without fear,
     but to so pursue the enemy!
     And he so loves his Atlanta Braves,
     and would love to throw out the first ball one day!
     Or hang out with Falcons,
     because both of them are but birds of prey!
     And for those Georgia Bull Dogs,
     as its for them he now so bleeds!
     Making this Dog's heart bark, continually!
     Rouuuuughhh Roughhhhh,
     watch out in The SEC there's hell to pay!
     As it was out on his tour!
     As an IED went off and death was almost so assured!
     With his two strong legs so lost,
     and so many injuries more!
     For 60 minutes he lay there without help before!
     Before helo picked him up!
     As Big Country had a choice,
     to so listen to that inner voice!
     And put it into gear,
     and put it to the floor!
     And make it to the finish line for a pit stop,
     so he could but live one day more!
     Or leave this world for sure!
     As one day somehow,
     Sean would walk out of that hospital door!
     Just like Chip Foose,
     he had some OVERHAULING TO DO FOR SURE!
     As they took this Hero into the shop,
     to a place called Walter Reed which above them all stands 
           high atop,
     where the Nurses and Doctors are the cream of the crop!
     Where these Heroines and Heroes,
     so know how to death to stop!
     And how to rebuild and remodel and restore,
     and OVERHAUL America's finest of all Heroes so for sure!
     And when he came out,
     Big Country's work had just begun!
     Because,
     his engine was running a little rough my son!
     And with each new day such pain begun!
     But Bull Dog's and Devil Dog's don't know how to run!
     And no matter how matter laps he had to take,
     he was but in a DOGNATIOUS STATE!
     And you could still hear his engine roar!
     As he put that pedal to the metal,
     in first place to come so for sure!
     Crossing that finish line,
     because of all what he had endured!
     To rebuild and to restore!
     Holding that winners cup high above his head!
     All in what his faith and courage,
     in The Game of Life his had so said!
     As straight to victory lap his heart so sped!
     And all of you stock car boys and gals,
     you most famous drivers all of this world so now!
     You gotta give this good old boy some major cred!
     Because from 0 to 60,
     from the beginning,
     all of the way to the very end his heart has led!
     And I don't think you want to go up against this Big Country,
     this Georgia Bull Dog on the race track of life head to head!
     Cause it's going to get pretty bumpy,
     if you catch his draft!
     Because, until you've been through,
     what he's been through . . .

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     nothing stops you in your path!
     Because, in The Game of Life . . .
     all at such high speeds Sean gave all that he would so need!
     Was asked!
     And when all out in front of him in that fast lane,
     pity and sorrow was strewn all across his path!
     He took it up high,
     and put it into gear . . .
     and blew past all of that sorrow and loss he so sped!
     Leaving them all in his dust,
     as he put that pedal to the medal . . .
     and with a tears in his eyes he put it into turbo thrust!
     As to all of that heartache and sorrow,
     said goodbye!
     Because, he's got a life to lead!
     And because its all in his DNA,
     all in Big Country's need for speed!
     As now he's in his victory lap called recovery!
     While, down in Georgia they all scream and shout . . .
     Big County's coming home so soon no doubt!
     And On The Road of Life,
     look for him way up out ahead!
     For there's so much we can all so learn from him,
     all in what his short life has said!
     In life we all must make those final choices!
     When up ahead there lies such forces . . .
     Do we so listen to our most inner voices?
     Will we down shift and lose our path?
     Or we take it up high,
     and leave heartache and sorrow so far behind as her we so 
           pass?
     And put that pedal to the medal,
     making those Angels up in heaven so smile and laugh!
     Sean the results are in,
     the checked flag is now waving you home . . .
     waving you in!
     As the next part of your new great life,
     is all so ready to so begin!
     Go ahead!
     START YOUR ENGINES!
     And put that pedal to the metal,
     you most Dogmatic of all ones!
     I low bout them Dogs!
     ROOOGHHH ROOOGHH!
     For you are one of Georgia's Most Heroic Sons!

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