July 12, 2006

HONORING THE VETERANS OF PEARL HARBOR

 

On July 14 - 16, the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association and the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors will commence the Sixth District Convention in St. Augustine, Florida to remember those who served at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. We welcome participants to Florida’s Seventh Congressional District and wish them well as they gather in America’s oldest city.

It is my privilege to honor the valor and sacrifice of those Pearl Harbor veterans from the State of Florida who recently passed away:

Allfrey, Lesley F.
Altner, Louis I.
Belisle, Frank E.
Benning, Bernard F.
Bernhard, Stephen W.
Brown, Melvin W.
Capra, Everest W.
Cardonell, Robert R.
Childers, James F.
Chilton, Harry C.
Chrastina, William
Cohen, Leon
Cook, Harold F. (Sarge) DeStwolinska, Adelbert
Forbis, Colbert F.
Freeman, Albert H.

Grabowski, Edward S.
Haas, Frank
Hallsman, Eldred E.
Hartley, Charles W.
Henner, Joseph E.
Henry, Robert
Hiedeman, Henry R.
Hull, Burton W.
Kearns, Joseph F.
Kennedy, Earl
Krakowski, Joseph H.
Lightkep, George R.
Loun, Jasper J., Jr.
Martin, Curtis C.
McClintock, Robert, Jr.
Miller, Howard C.

Payne, Donald
Restiva, Anthony Bilano
Rhodes, Clarence G.
Savage, Norman F.
Schnurman, John D.
Smart, Raymond
Smith, Billie J.
Spradley, Lester L.
Stephenson, Joseph, Jr.
Ulrich, Jack
Whetstone, Amos C.
Williams, Wallace R.
Wilson, George
Wright, Ralph
Young, Edward F., Jr. Zelenock, John P.

I know I join all those in attendance at the convention and countless Americans who continue to recognize their heroism and their families’ incredible sacrifice to our nation.