I 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 9997 
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient 
clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. ’Bud’ Lomell, Jr. 
VA Clinic, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 18, 2024 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey (for himself, Mr. NORCROSS, Mr. VAN DREW, and 
Mr. KIM of New Jersey) introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community- 
based outpatient clinic in Toms River, New Jersey, the 
Leonard G. ’Bud’ Lomell, Jr. VA Clinic, and for other 
purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SEC. 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Township of Toms River, Ocean Coun-
ty, New Jersey, in the Fourth Congressional Dis-
trict, was designated as the site for the new Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic, a state- 
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of-the-art facility serving the region’s large veteran 
population, to be located at the corner of Hooper 
and Caudina Avenues. 
(2) The Mayor and the Township Council be-
lieve that this facility deserves to be named in honor 
of Second Lieutenant Leonard G. ‘‘Bud’’ Lomell, 
Jr., a long time Toms River and Ocean County resi-
dent, who served courageously and heroically during 
World War II. 
(3) Second Lieutenant Lomell was born in 
1920, the adopted son of Scandinavian immigrant 
parents living in Brooklyn, New York, and his fam-
ily eventually moved to Point Pleasant Beach, New 
Jersey. 
(4) Second Lieutenant Lomell attended Ten-
nessee Wesleyan College, and following college, he 
enlisted in the Army, volunteering for the elite 
Ranger Corps, and was a member of the Second 
Rangers Battalion during the June 6, 1944, D-Day 
invasion, commanding his own platoon as First Ser-
geant. 
(5) Then-First Sergeant Lomell’s Platoon land-
ed at Pointe-du-Hoc, Normandy, France, a rugged 
100-foot-high coastal promenade along the English 
Channel coast located between the American-tar-
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geted Omaha and Utah beaches, successfully scaling 
the cliffs, despite a withering German defensive bar-
rage. 
(6) Pointe-du-Hoc was heavily defended by the 
Germans, and the mission of the 225 Rangers was 
to disable five 155-millimeter artillery guns, which 
could have rained artillery fire on the Americans 
landing on either beach, jeopardizing the invasion. 
(7) Unknown to the Americans, the guns had 
been moved from the tip of the Pointe and hidden, 
pointed in the direction of Utah Beach, in an inland 
apple orchard nearly a mile from the coastal bat-
teries. 
(8) First Sergeant Lomell and another Ranger, 
Sergeant Jack Kuhn, found the guns undefended, 
and with Kuhn providing cover, Lomell destroyed 
the weapons with thermite grenades and using his 
rifle butt to smash the sights, saving countless Allied 
lives. 
(9) First Sergeant Lomell subsequently received 
a battlefield promotion to Second Lieutenant, and 
was awarded some of the military’s highest honors, 
including the Distinguished Service Cross, Purple 
Heart, and Silver Star. 
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(10) Renowned historian Steven Ambrose re-
garded First Sergeant Lomell’s valiant acts along 
with General Eisenhower’s decision to invade on 
June 6, 1944, as the most significant actions ensur-
ing the Allied victory on D-Day. 
(11) Following World War II, Second Lieuten-
ant Lomell attended law school on the G.I. Bill, 
eventually settling with his family in Toms River 
and, in 1957, establishing his own law firm, which 
grew to become one of Ocean County’s largest. 
(12) Serving as selflessly in civilian life as he 
did in the military, Second Lieutenant Lomell was 
involved in numerous civic and charitable organiza-
tions, including by serving as president of the Ocean 
County Bar Association, a director of the First Na-
tional Bank of Toms River, a member of the Dover 
Township Board of Education, and as a founding 
member of the World War II Army Rangers Bat-
talion Association. 
(13) Second Lieutenant Lomell is profiled in 
the Greatest Generation, former NBC news Anchor 
Tom Brokaw’s testament to the heroes of World 
War II. 
(14) As a decorated war hero, model citizen, 
and dedicated husband and father, Second Lieuten-
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ant Lomell is exceedingly deserving of the post-
humous honor of having a new and long-awaited 
Toms River-based Department of Veterans Affairs 
outpatient clinic named in his honor. 
SEC. 2. NAME OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
COMMUNITY-BASED 
OUTPATIENT 
CLINIC, 
TOMS RIVER, NEW JERSEY. 
The community-based outpatient clinic of the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs in Toms River, New Jersey, shall 
after the date of the enactment of this Act be known and 
designated as the ‘‘Leonard G. ‘Bud’ Lomell, Jr. VA Clin-
ic’’. Any reference to such clinic in any law, regulation, 
map, document, record, or other paper of the United 
States shall be considered to be a reference to the Leonard 
G. ‘‘Bud’’ Lomell, Jr. VA Clinic. 
Æ 
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