[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 6]
[House]
[Pages 7904-7905]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 HONORING THE SERVICE OF STAFF SERGEANT BOBBY BRIDGET AND MR. AND MRS. 
                              STEVE MASSA

  (Mr. PITTENGER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTENGER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay honor and tribute to 
three wonderful North Carolina heroes, Army Staff Sergeant Bobby 
Bridget, and his neighbors back home, Steve and Pat Massa.
  Sergeant Bridget served us in Afghanistan with three tours. During 
that time, his job was to go find IEDs and then take those IEDs and 
dismantle them to protect his fellow soldiers.
  Meanwhile, his neighbors back home, Pat and Steve Massa, they would 
take care of his lawn, they would do the errands around the house to 
make sure that their neighbor could go and serve his country and defend 
our freedoms.
  Well, the rest of the story is, Mr. Speaker, that the Massas, during 
this time, were going through their own challenges. They had cancer 
surgeries;

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they had cancer treatments. It was a very difficult, emotional time; 
yet they did what it took to take care of their neighbor.
  We're grateful for the service of Sergeant Bridget and particularly 
grateful for the wonderful neighbors that he had in the Massas.
  May God richly bless these people.

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