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Fallen Heroes

Date: June 3, 2004
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Defense Foreign Affairs


FALLEN HEROES -- (Extensions of Remarks - June 03, 2004)

SPEECH OF
HON. CHARLES F. BASS
OF NEW HAMSHIRE
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2004

Mr. BASS. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Sergeant 1st Class Robert Edward Rooney of Nashua, New Hampshire. He bravely served the U.S. Army National Guard's 379th Engineer Company, supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. Ferguson made the ultimate sacrifice to protect his country and aid the Iraqi people when he died of injuries he sustained in an accident at the Shuabai Port in Kuwait on September 25, 2003.

I ask my colleagues to join me in honoring Sergeant 1st Class Robert Edward Rooney and our other service men and women who have courageously given their own lives in order to protect and defend the democracy we enjoy in America and to extend the freedoms that come with democracy to those who live in fear and oppression worldwide.

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