[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4099]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         RECOGNIZING LYNN BROWN

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                           HON. JOHN SHIMKUS

                              of illinois

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 9, 2017

  Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to acknowledge Veteran Services 
Officer Lynn P. Brown for being selected as Employee of the Quarter for 
the entire State of Illinois Department of Veterans' Affairs Agency. 
VSO Brown has been with the agency for nearly 26 years.
  VSO Lynn Brown grew up in a family of eight boys in Effingham, 
Illinois. He graduated from Effingham High School in 1962 and joined 
the Army in 1966. After training at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, and 
Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Lynn was stationed overseas at Pleiku, South 
Vietnam, with the 1st Signal Battalion as a personnel specialist and 
rose to the rank of Spec/5. He received an Honorable Discharge in 1969. 
Spec/5 Brown was awarded the Army Commendation Medal, National Defense 
Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with 2 
Campaign Stars, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm, and the 
Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation.
  During his career as a VSO, Lynn Brown has served a large section of 
South Central Illinois veterans. His professional career has been 
described as defining what a Veteran Services Officer should be, and 
his private life has become an extension with the same devotion. He 
continues to serve veterans and their families long after the workday 
is over, on holidays, and on weekends. He has even built over a hundred 
shadow boxes for medals and awards for fellow veterans and their 
families, at no cost to the recipients.
  I offer my congratulations to VSO Brown for his outstanding 
accomplishments while serving veterans. We need more men and women like 
him.

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