FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
July 2, 2012
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Washington, DC – On June 23, 2012, Congressman Steve Rothman (NJ-9) helped rededicate the post office in Little Ferry, NJ in honor of the memory of Marine Sergeant Matthew J. Fenton. Congressman Rothman introduced H.R.789 last year, which renamed the post office in Little Ferry, NJ in honor of Marine Sergeant Matthew J. Fenton who died from injuries sustained in the Iraq War in 2006. H.R. 789 was signed into law by President Obama on January 3, 2012.
“It is fitting that Little Ferry’s post office will now forever bear Sergeant Matthew J. Fenton’s name, because he was an exemplary member of this community,” said Congressman Rothman. “Matthew represented the best our country has to offer. He was a brave, patriotic, selfless and bright young man who continues to inspire those of us he left behind even after his death.”
At just 24 years of age, Fenton was struck by shrapnel after alerting fellow soldiers to the presence of a suicide bomber. All soldiers present except Fenton survived. Fenton passed away nine days later at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
The legislation passed the House of Representatives by voice vote on July 29, 2011 and cleared the Senate by unanimous consent on Dec 17, 2011.
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