Mark Souder: “my subject for tonight is on Afghanistan and the narcotics problem, but before I address that, I would like to insert…”

“my subject for tonight is on Afghanistan and the narcotics problem, but before I address that, I would like to insert into the Record an excellent newspaper article about Tom Jehl, who died Tuesday in Fort Wayne. He had this tremendous love for the University of St. Francis and Fort Wayne football team, and that love and this story is about how it kept him alive in the drive for the national championship, and how this year it is the inspiration for that team. This is in NAIA, not Notre Dame's division. They will be the national champ in that division, but the University of St. Francis has been in the championship for the last few years, and Tom Jehl was their biggest cheerleader, and he is going to be sorely missed in Fort Wayne, and I hope it inspires the team, the Cougars, to go all the way this year [From the Fort Wayne News--Sentinel, Sept. 13, 2006] In January 2005, Fort Wayne businessman and Lifetime Sports Academy co-founder Tom Jehl was diagnosed with aggressive strains of carcinoma and sarcoma cancers. A few weeks later, doctors at the Mayo Clinic told Jehl he had six months to live. Jehl died Tuesday at age 76. This story is how he turned that prediction into 21 months with the help of some young friends. When Jehl was informed of his diagnosis, one of the first people he called was University of Saint Francis Football coach Kevin Donley. The pair had met eight years earlier while waiting to participate in an hour-long radio sports show.…”