I rise in strong support of H.R. 960. to award citizenship posthumously to Cpl. Wladyslaw Staniszewski. I am a proud cosponsor of this legislation honoring a man who gave his life for the country he loved. Cpl. Wladyslaw Staniszewski. known to his friends and family as Scotty. was killed in Vietnam on July 7. 1967. Scottys father served in the Polish Army during World War II spending most of the war in a POW camp. After the war. Scottys family fled to Scotland and later emigrated to the United States in 1964 when Scotty was only 17. In 1966. before becoming a U.S. citizen. Scotty enlisted in the U.S.
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