[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 6]
[House]
[Page 8415]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




         REMEMBERING THE SACRIFICES OF OUR BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN

  (Mr. HULTGREN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HULTGREN. Mr. Speaker, in recognition of Armed Forces Day and 
Memorial Day this month, we offer our deepest gratitude to those who 
have selflessly dedicated their lives protecting our freedom. In 
particular, I want to remember Second Lieutenant Walter Truemper and 
Lieutenant Colonel William Robert Holstine, both of Aurora, Illinois.
  Army Air Force Second Lieutenant and Medal of Honor recipient 
Truemper was honored this Armed Forces Day with the naming of Walter E. 
Truemper Lane in Aurora. As navigator of a B-17 bomber during World War 
II, Truemper was ordered to abandon his plane following German gunfire 
which killed the copilot. But as the pilot remained alive but immobile, 
he refused to desert the plane. Unfortunately, after three attempts to 
land the plane, it fatally crashed.
  Lieutenant Colonel Holstine earned several awards for his 29 years of 
service to the Army and was an avid runner, a military science 
professor at Wheaton College, and a project manager for the Army 
Reserve. Lieutenant Colonel Holstine lost his battle with cancer this 
February. I am privileged to be honoring him and his wife at Kane 
County's Memorial Day ceremonies next week.

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