[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 7234]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                HONORING PRIVATE FIRST CLASS CODY TOWSE

  (Mr. CHAFFETZ asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CHAFFETZ. Mr. Speaker, I stand to honor Private First Class Cody 
Towse, whose life was lost in Afghanistan. America lost one of its best 
and Utah lost one of our best.
  This is a young soldier who had dedicated his life to helping save 
others. At the age of 18, he went to become an EMT and then a 
firefighter, and later joined the Army. He had recently won the Army 
Combat Medic Ribbon for saving another life under fire. As a bomb went 
off near Kandahar, he went to rush to the person who was injured, when 
a second bomb went off that took his life.
  Today, I stand to honor him and all the men and women who serve and 
sacrifice for this country, for the United States of America. May God 
bless them, and may God bless the United States of America.

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