[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13221]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      LANCE CORPORAL SQUIRE WELLS

  (Mr. LOUDERMILK asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LOUDERMILK. Mr. Speaker, this last Sunday, my family and I 
attended church at the First Baptist Church of Woodstock in Woodstock, 
Georgia.
  It is not the first time we ever attended that church, as we have 
worshipped there before; but it is possibly the most memorable time 
that I will have attended that church because it was at this service 
that we were having the funeral of Lance Corporal Squire Wells, who is 
known to his friends and family as Skip. Skip was the youngest of those 
who were killed in the terrorist attack in Chattanooga.
  As we were driving to the church, Mr. Speaker, as we were still miles 
away from the church, along the sides of the road, we began to see 
American citizens, citizens of the 11th Congressional District lining 
the road, holding American flags and Marine Corps flags. As we 
approached closer to the church, the hundreds of people turned into 
thousands of people.
  As we arrived at the church, nearly 500 members of the Patriot Guard 
Riders, Marine Corps League, the VFW, and the American Legion were 
standing, lining the sidewalks of this church, bearing American flags 
to say good-bye and to say thank you to a patriot.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to also say thank you to Skip Wells--Lance 
Corporal Wells. Although, to my knowledge, we never met in person, I 
didn't know him personally, but I do know the type of person he is 
because he was a marine, which told me that he held to the highest 
standards of decorum and morale and integrity.
  He was a Christian who served faithfully in the First Baptist Church 
of Woodstock, which tells me he had a heart of charity and love.
  Mr. Speaker, I want to say thank you to Skip Wells for laying down 
his life for my freedom, the freedom of my children, and my 
granddaughter. I want to say thank you to Ms. Cathy Wells, his mom, for 
raising such a fine person as a single mom raising her only child, who 
has given his life in defense of this Nation.
  Lastly, Mr. Speaker, I want to thank the thousands of people from my 
district who came out and honored the life of this American patriot.

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