Master sergeant gary gordon biography of georgetown

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  • Gary Gordon graduated from Mattanawcook Academy
    • [Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 138 (Monday, September 30, 1996)] [House] [Pages H12183-H12191] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] BILL CLINTON, SECURITY CLEARANCE AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of May 12, 1995, the gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, good afternoon to my good friend. We are certainly going to miss him here. What a great 20 years he brought to his country's service following his reserve military service. Mr. Speaker, I thought that the U.S. Senate might move more swiftly on Friday last and that we might adjourn sine die on Friday, the 27th of September. Then there would have been no special orders. We would have gone out sine die. My high school Latin tells me that means done, no further legislative action, House and Senate are gone, traditional call from the White House to the leader of the Senate, Mr. Trent Lott, and the man second in line to the presidency after the vice presidency, the Speaker of the U.S. House. But it did not happen. I thought I had done the last special order on Thursday night. Then on Friday night, since we did not go out sine die, I thought I had done the last special order on Friday night. Saturday, we were in and out, recesses, and I did not get a chance to come to the floor with something that I did not have time for Thursday or Friday that really was the most important thing I wanted to say and the core of how I wanted to personally close out the 104th Congress, as I had closed out the 102d Congress in 1992, with three of the most experienced military men in this Chamber, the only aerial ace from the Signal Corps in World War I, Army Air Corps, Army Air Force, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, the only ace to ever serve in this House, Duke Cunningham came to this floor with me for over a week with Duncan Hunter,
  • Gary Gordon, master sergeant, who died

    • Gary K. Lynn

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    Gary K. Lynn, 64

    DOVER - Gary K. Lynn, of Dover, passed away Friday, May 2, 2008, at his home. He was 64.

    Gary was born Feb. 20, 1944, in Plainfield, N.J., son of the late Ellsworth and Patricia (Campbell) Lynn.

    He served his country proudly for three years in the U.S. Army and 19 years in the U.S. Air Force, ending 22 years of service with the rank of master sergeant, having served several tours in Vietnam, retiring in 1985.

    After his military career, he took his most recent position with the state of Delaware working in radiation control.

    Gary was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.

    He enjoyed fishing and gardening.

    He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Gail Lynn of Dover; his twin brother, Gordon D. Lynn of Little Falls, N.J.; brother, Kenneth Lynn and his wife Mary of Fishkill, N.Y.; two sisters, Joan McLaughlin of Richmond, Va., and Gail Hensel of Orlando, Fla.; and several nieces and nephews.

    Services will be noon Tuesday in the Pippin Funeral Home, 119 W. Camden-Wyoming Ave., Wyoming, where friends may call one hour before services.

    Burial with full military honors will follow in the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery, 100 Patriots Way, Millsboro.

    In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to Delaware Hospice, 911 S. Dupont Highway, Dover, DE 19901; or the Kent County SPCA, 32 Shelter Circle, Camden, DE 19934.

    Letters of condolences may be sent via www.pippinfuneralhome.com.

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    An American War Hero Is Memorialized In Lincoln, Maine

    Friends, family, military members, and dignitaries unveiled something in Lincoln yesterday that will remind those throughout the years of a life given in defense of freedom.

    It's been 28 years now, and you may not know who Gary Ivan Gordon was just off the top of your head. But he was certainly a man of courage and a man who believed at the right moment that he had a job to do.

    Gary Gordon graduated from Mattanawcook Academy in 1978, and then joined the United States Army.  By 1986, Gordon was a member of the elite Delta Force, a unit that specialized in doing things like hostage recovery, counter-terrorism, and "direct action" maneuvers.

    In 1993, Master Sergeant Gordon was part of the now-infamous combat search and rescue team that was dispatched to a horrible scene in Mogadishu, Somalia, where two U.S. Military Blackhawk helicopters had been shot down.

    Providing air cover and still hovering in the air over the scene of the second helicopter that was shot down, Gordon argued with his commander that he and his partner should be lowered to help, protect, and hopefully rescue the four injured and wounded crew members stranded on the ground below who were quickly being surrounded by opposing armed forces.

    A heavily armed Gary Gordon and another Delta Force crew member, Sergeant First Class Randall Shughart, were eventually lowered into the battle scene where they valiantly fought the now surging numbers of hostile Somalis.

    Vastly outnumbered, both Gordon and Shughart were killed.

    In May of 1994, both Gordon and Shughart posthumously received the Medal of Honor, among other distinguished awards.  A book was written and a movie named Black Hawk Down was made.

    The late Gary Gordon of Lincoln, Maine, is a definitive war hero.  He was what makes the United States of America, great, and the leader of the free world.

    A statue was unveiled during a ceremony yes

    [Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 118 (Friday, August 19, 1994)] [House] [Page H] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov] [Congressional Record: August 19, 1994] From the Congressional Record Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] POTENTIAL INVASION OF HAITI The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the Speaker's announced policy of February 11, 1994, and June 10, 1994, the gentleman from California [Mr. Dornan] is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I want to tell my colleague of the great State of Hawaii that I did listen to his remarks. They were fascinating. He has to be one of the three or four best speakers in this Chamber. I wish we could debate at length the health plan in the State that I refer to quite seriously as paradise on earth. After all, that is the way Robert Louis Stevenson referred to those beautiful islands of the Hawaii chain, and that is also the way Mark Twain, Samuel Clemens, referred to them. When you live in paradise and rake in all that great tourist money from the United States, sometimes you have a financial base that the rest of us do not have. As I said on the floor yesterday, and you explained it a little bit today, lack of universal coverage is what is causing them to be in such high dungeon over in the Senate. I'm going to refer to that if I have time at the end of my remarks. Mr. Speaker, this is, tonight, about a briefing that I had yesterday in which I will not discuss any of the classified details, because it was a top secret briefing, but only the fact that I and all of the Republican Members at this briefing on Haiti believe there is still a large group of people in the administration, who have the President's attention, who want to invade this small island with physical force to restore a man, Gen. Bertrand Aristide, who, although fairly elected with a percentage in the high sixties--not an Adolf Hitler, who was elect