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Mark Souder: There are probably no things more upsetting to Members of Congress than to know that the difficult decisions we have…

On the recordOctober 9, 2007
There are probably no things more upsetting to Members of Congress than to know that the difficult decisions we have made here have resulted in the deaths of young men and women in battle. Lance Corporal David Fribley was actually the first Hoosier killed in action in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. One of the good things that we have seen in the Oversight and Government Reform Committee has been a number of post offices and various things being named after these young patriots. I was earlier at a dedication of a football field in Warsaw, Indiana, named Fribley Field, where the community went together and put together a statue and a number of things in tribute for him and his family and renamed the field and redid the field so that kids could continue to play athletics as he did in Warsaw. He is actually from Atwood. His parents are Gary and Linda. He has a brother, Steve, and a sister, Ann.
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Honoring Lance Corporal David Fribley, the first Hoosier killed in Iraq, during a speech on the House floor.

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