[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 11041]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




     A HERO AMONG US--RICHMOND, TEXAS POLICE OFFICER RAMON MORALES

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                            HON. PETE OLSON

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, June 25, 2014

  Mr. OLSON. Mr. Speaker, we all know that heroes live among us. One 
hero who lives among the people of Texas' Congressional District 22 is 
Ramon Morales.
  Ramon is a rookie police officer in Richmond, Texas. At 1 a.m. on 
Sunday, June 22nd, Ramon was sent to investigate a report of a woman 
sitting on the railroad tracks in Richmond.
  Ramon drove up to the location where the woman was sitting on the 
railroad tracks, the red lights came on and the crossing arms came 
swooping down--a train was speeding down the tracks!
  The dash camera in Ramon's patrol car showed a hero coming to life. 
He jumped out of the cruiser and dashed onto the tracks. As he began to 
pull the woman off the tracks, she screamed and resisted Ramon's 
efforts to save her. Undaunted, Ramon kept pulling and got the woman 
off the tracks as the train roared by.
  That all happened in brief 12 seconds.
  The Texans who call Richmond home sleep well at night knowing that 
Officer Ramon Morales, a true, life-saving hero, is on patrol.

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