April 9, 2019 - Issue: Vol. 165, No. 61 — Daily Edition116th Congress (2019 - 2020) - 1st Session

[Pages H3186-H3187]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    HONORING SERGEANT DOMINICK PILLA

  (Mr. VAN DREW asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. VAN DREW. Madam Speaker, I am here today to honor an outstanding 
member of south Jersey.
  Recently in Vineland, New Jersey, we celebrated the naming of 
Sergeant Dominick Pilla Middle School. Sergeant Pilla was a brave soul 
who loved this country enough to enlist in the Army to serve to protect 
it.
  Tragically, he was killed while saving a fellow soldier in Somalia 
during the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993 and was posthumously awarded the 
Bronze Star and the Purple Heart.
  The naming of this school is to honor Sergeant Pilla's love and 
sacrifice for

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his country. Now he will be remembered by every student who walks 
through those halls. He will be honored by these students as they grow 
and learn to dedicate themselves to do what they do and love the way 
that Sergeant Pilla did.
  I thank Sergeant Dominick Pilla for his service.
  To all of the men and all of the women in the Armed Forces who serve 
our country so bravely and so selflessly, may God bless them.

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