[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 8]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 11387]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




COMMEMORATING CLIFTON SORENSON'S 14 YEARS OF SERVICE AT THE EAU CLAIRE 
                     COUNTY VETERANS SERVICE OFFICE

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                             HON. RON KIND

                              of wisconsin

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, July 8, 2014

  Mr. KIND. Mr. Speaker, I rise before you today to honor Clifton 
Sorenson's service as Eau Claire County's Veterans Service Officer. 
Clifton is a native Wisconsinite from the Chippewa Valley area. After 
high school, he attended the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 
majoring in Business Administration, before entering the U.S. Air 
Force. He served honorably in the USAF at four bases in the United 
States and two bases in the Republic of Vietnam.
  Clifton devoted much of his time to caring for veterans. For four 
years before joining the Wisconsin Department of Veteran Affairs in 
Madison, Wisconsin, Clifton served as the Barron County Veterans 
Service Officer. There he provided veterans counseling and information 
for medical, education, and housing benefits--striving to assist 
veterans and their families in any way possible. Additionally, he began 
a special and continuing interest in serving the aging, homeless, and 
incarcerated veterans. Clifton would continue those added duties for 
over two decades.
  Since 2000, Clifton has served as Eau Claire County's Veterans 
Service Officer, counseling veterans, active servicemembers, 
dependents, and survivors of veterans on benefits available. As an 
advocate, he worked extensively with other veterans' service offices, 
veterans' service organizations, and civic organizations in an effort 
to provide the best service possible to veterans in the Chippewa Valley 
and throughout the State of Wisconsin. Clifton is a member of numerous 
service and professional organizations, including the American Legion 
and the National Coalition for Homeless veterans.
  Clifton served on the Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation and 
Hospital Committees at the department level. On the national level he 
served as Vice Chairman of the National Foreign Relations Council and 
is a member of the National Legislative Council. He has been awarded 
the National Homeless Veterans Outreach Award and a National 
Certificate of Appreciation for his assistance to the homeless veteran 
population.
  It is with great pride that I rise today to recognize Clifton for his 
years of service to the men and women of our armed services and their 
families, and I congratulate him on his retirement after 14 years of 
service at the Eau Claire County Veterans Service Office.

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