Corporal Matthew A. Wyatt Post Office

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Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and pass the bill (H.R. 8976) to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 20 West White Street in Millstadt, Illinois, as the ``Corporal Matthew A. Wyatt Post Office''.

The Clerk read the title of the bill.

The text of the bill is as follows: H.R. 8976

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. CORPORAL MATTHEW A. WYATT POST OFFICE.

(a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service located at 20 West White Street in Millstadt, Illinois, shall be known and designated as the ``Corporal Matthew A. Wyatt Post Office''.

(b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Corporal Matthew A. Wyatt Post Office''.

Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bill, which would rename a post office in Illinois for Corporal Matthew A. Wyatt.

Wyatt joined the United States Marine Corps shortly after graduating high school in June of 2001. On December 3, 2004, Corporal Wyatt was killed while stopping a suicide bomber's truck at the gates of his forward operating base in Iraq.

I support naming a post office in memory of Corporal Wyatt, and I encourage all my colleagues to support this bill. As a historical note, my father was a Corporal in the United States Marine Corps.
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Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support the naming of a post office after Corporal Matthew A. Wyatt.

My mama lost her oldest brother in the Second World War, and to the day she died, she talked about him. I could identify with what Marine Bost was just saying. I yield back the balance of my time.

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