[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 3]
[House]
[Page 3061]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




        CELEBRATING THE 100TH BIRTHDAY OF MRS. ALLIEFAIR ROGERS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Loudermilk) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. LOUDERMILK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the milestone 
in the life of Mrs. Alliefair Rogers who, this week, is celebrating her 
100th birthday. Mrs. Rogers is also, incidentally, a second-generation 
centurion, as her mother, Ida Jane, also lived to the age of 103.
  Throughout her life in the past century, Mrs. Rogers has witnessed 
some of the most significant moments that have shaped our Nation. Born 
during the onset of World War I, Mrs. Rogers was only 2 years old when 
America entered the Great War, sending our doughboys across the 
Atlantic.
  By the time she was 5 years old, the first radio stations were going 
on the air in America, prohibition was enacted, and women for the first 
time had the right to vote. By her 12th birthday, Charles Lindbergh had 
flown across the Atlantic Ocean, and the first motion picture with 
sound was played in theaters. At the age of 14, she witnessed the 
beginning of the Great Depression.
  Just months before turning 25, Mrs. Rogers learned of the Japanese 
attack on Pearl Harbor and, over the next 5 years, said goodbye to 
family members and friends as they left Walhalla, South Carolina, to 
fight against the Axis Powers.
  Before her 31st birthday, she had witnessed the D-day invasion, the 
Battle of the Bulge, the Battle of Iwo Jima, the bombing of Hiroshima 
and Nagasaki, and the surrender of both Germany and Japan. By the age 
of 33, she witnessed the rebirth of Israel as a nation; and, at 40, 
America sent troops overseas to fight in Korea.
  By her 50th birthday, she had lived through the building of the 
Berlin Wall, America's first satellite in space, the deployment of 
forces to Vietnam, the Cuban missile crisis, and the assassination of 
President John F. Kennedy.
  By 60 years old, Mrs. Rogers witnessed the end of the Vietnam war, 
the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the first human 
to step foot on the moon.
  Within the next 15 years, by the age of 75, Mrs. Rogers experienced 
the first resignation of a United States President, the invention of 
the personal computer, the first woman Supreme Court Justice, the end 
of the cold war, and the beginning of the space shuttle program.
  In her lifetime, Mrs. Rogers has witnessed the administration of 17 
United States Presidents and a significant portion of this Nation's 
history.
  Today, I join with the many friends and family who are celebrating 
the virtuous and faith-led life of my aunt Mrs. Alliefair Rogers and 
wish her a very happy 100th birthday.

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