[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 13]
[House]
[Page 17943]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                              VETERANS DAY

  (Mr. HOLDING asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HOLDING. Mr. Speaker, after Mary Louise Roberts' father died 
during the Depression, she worked in a laundry, then she trained as a 
nurse. After Pearl Harbor, she joined the Army.
  Two years later, she waded ashore at Anzio, Italy, to set up a field 
hospital on the battlefield. The hospital tent was bombed, killing 
three nurses. Three days later, German artillery killed two more 
nurses. As shrapnel tore through the burning tent, Mary Roberts calmly 
supervised surgeries on wounded soldiers.
  Mary was called ``the Angel of Anzio,'' and was the first woman to 
win the Silver Star.
  Today, Mr. Speaker, all you have to do is open the newspaper to see 
the cruelest kind of barbarism has been reborn in the world--ISIS burns 
people alive and sells women in slave markets in Syria and Iraq.
  On Veterans Day, let us remember Mary Roberts and all our veterans, 
and, by the grace of God, offer a prayer of thanks for the soldiers 
whose courage keeps us safe at home, every day.

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