[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 163 (2017), Part 4]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 5755]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




RECOGNIZING THE LIFE OF FALLEN MISSISSIPPI SOLDIER SERGEANT (SGT) HENRY 
                              LEVON BROWN

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                            HON. TRENT KELLY

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, April 6, 2017

  Mr. KELLY of Mississippi. Mr. Speaker, today I rise in memory of Army 
Sergeant (SGT) Henry Levon Brown who paid the ultimate sacrifice while 
defending our nation on April 8, 2003, during Operation Iraqi Freedom. 
SGT Brown was assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st 
Battalion, 64th Field Artillery Regiment, Fort Stewart, Georgia. He was 
serving as a Colonel's driver at the time of his death. He was mortally 
wounded in an enemy rocket attack in Baghdad.
  SGT Brown was born September 30, 1980, in Natchez, Mississippi. He 
joined the military after graduating from Natchez High School in 1999. 
SGT Brown held the rank of Corporal with the Army's HHC 2nd Brigade 
Command Group when he lost his life.
  ``He was very proud of what he did,'' said Staff Sergeant James 
Dayton, who was Brown's Army supervisor for a year and a half and 
escorted his body to Mississippi. ``He was very sharp. He always stayed 
ahead of me.''
  ``There wasn't anything he wouldn't do for me, and I know there 
wasn't anything he wouldn't have done for everyone in this room,'' said 
his wife, Army Specialist JoDona Brown.
  SGT Brown was honored by Natchez Mayor F.L. Hank Smith, members of 
his high school class, and Adams County supervisors. More than 1,500 
people attended the spirited celebration of the soldier's life. Those 
at the funeral remembered Brown as a quiet, religious young man. Before 
joining the service, SGT Brown was a Sunday School teacher, secretary, 
and junior choir member at Greater New Bethel Baptist Church.
  SGT Brown is survived by his wife, SPC JoDona Brown, and his mother, 
Rhonda James-Brown and father, Elm Carter Brown.

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