[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12745]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                IN MEMORY OF STAFF SERGEANT DAVID WYATT

  (Mr. WOMACK asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. WOMACK. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor the memory of Staff 
Sergeant David Wyatt, who was taken much too soon from his family and 
friends on July 16. David, a marine and loving father, was born 
November 7, 1979, in Morganton, North Carolina.
  David was a graduate of Russellville High School in Russellville, 
Arkansas, my alma mater. He was a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan. 
For his service, Staff Sergeant Wyatt earned numerous medals and 
commendations for exemplary service in the infantry. He was a dedicated 
marine.
  While performing his duties on July 16 as the battery operations 
chief, 3rd Battalion, 14th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, Staff 
Sergeant Wyatt was gunned down during the tragic Chattanooga shooting 
that killed him, along with three other marines and a Navy sailor.
  It is devastating that this decorated marine was taken in the 
homeland that he served so valiantly overseas to protect. His death 
shook the Arkansas River Valley in yet another senseless act of 
violence that can never be explained, justified, or tolerated.
  The Russellville and Adkins communities and the entire Third District 
of Arkansas mourn the loss of my fellow Russellville Cyclone and his 
fellow servicemen. My prayers are with his wife, Lorri; his two 
children, Rebecca and Heath; and his parents, Lew Wyatt of St. 
Augustine, Florida, and Deborah Boen of Atkins, Arkansas.
  May God bless those he leaves behind, as they search for peace and 
understanding through this terrible tragedy.

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