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[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4199 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.4199

                     One Hundred Thirteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America

                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday,
           the third day of January, two thousand and fourteen

                                 An Act

 
   To name the Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Waco, 
  Texas, as the ``Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical 
                                Center''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. FINDINGS.
    Congress makes the following findings:
        (1) On October 12, 1919, Doris Miller was born in Waco, Texas.
        (2) On September 16, 1939, Miller enlisted in the United States 
    Navy as mess attendant, third class at Naval Recruiting Station, 
    Dallas, Texas, to serve for a period of six years.
        (3) On February 16, 1941, Miller received a change of rating to 
    mess attendant, second class.
        (4) On June 1, 1942, Miller received a change of rating to mess 
    attendant, first class.
        (5) On June 1, 1943, Miller received a change of rating, to 
    cook, third class.
        (6) On November 25, 1944, Miller was presumed dead by the 
    Secretary of the Navy a year and a day after being carried as 
    missing in action since November 24, 1943, while serving aboard USS 
    Liscome Bay when that vessel was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific 
    Ocean.
        (7) Miller was awarded the Navy Cross Medal, Purple Heart 
    Medal, American Defense Service Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign 
    Medal, and World War II Victory Medal.
        (8) Miller's citation for the Navy Cross said ``for 
    distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard 
    for his own personal safety during the attack on the Fleet in Pearl 
    Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, 
    1941. While at the side of his Captain on the bridge, Miller, 
    despite enemy strafing and bombing and in the face of a serious 
    fire, assisted in moving his Captain, who had been mortally 
    wounded, to a place of greater safety, and later manned and 
    operated a machine gun directed at enemy Japanese attacking 
    aircraft until ordered to leave the bridge.''.
        (9) On June 20, 1973, the USS Miller (FF-1091), a Knox-class 
    frigate, was named in honor of Doris Miller.
SEC. 2. NAME OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER, WACO, 
TEXAS.
    The Department of Veterans Affairs medical center in Waco, Texas, 
shall after the date of the enactment of this Act be known and 
designated as the ``Doris Miller Department of Veterans Affairs Medical 
Center''. Any reference to such medical center in any law, regulation, 
map, document, record, or other paper of the United States shall be 
considered to be a reference to the Doris Miller Department of Veterans 
Affairs Medical Center.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.
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