Louie Gohmert: “Since we are going into Memorial Day weekend, I am thrilled Sergeant Derrick Miller has been released. I testified at…”

“Since we are going into Memorial Day weekend, I am thrilled Sergeant Derrick Miller has been released. I testified at two different hearings for him. I am thrilled he is released. He shouldn't have been incarcerated. Lieutenant Clint Lorance, hopefully that can be brought to an end and he can be released like American Taliban John Walker Lindh was. But I want to finish by mentioning Ross McGinnis. I promised his father, Tom, I would never forget him, and I haven't. Ross was 19 when he was in Iraq. Ross loved the Army. Ross finished high school in Knox, Pennsylvania, joined the Army. He loved it, and his platoon sergeant said everybody loved Ross. Ross helped energize people. Ross was a machine gunner up in the turret of a Humvee going through a village in Iraq. A grenade was projected into the bed of the Humvee, and Ross was the only one in a position to jump out and save himself. He yelled, ``Grenade.'' Ross saw the four people in the bed crouch. Ross knew they were going to die, so Ross jumped down, covered the grenade, and saved four people's lives. I went to Ross' funeral, his graveside in Arlington Cemetery, because two of the four people Ross saved were my constituents. Ross' sergeant and the two others who made it back from Iraq for the funeral came up after the ceremony, knelt before Ross' remains, put their hands on Ross' remains, and as they told me, they thank God for Ross McGinnis, and they thank Ross for saving their lives.…”