H. R. 2170
One Hundred Nineteenth Congress
of the
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Friday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and twenty-five 
An Act 
To name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic 
in Toms River, New Jersey, the Leonard G. ’Bud’ Lomell, VA Clinic, and for 
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic, 
a state-of-the-art facility serving the region’s largest veteran 
population, located at 1055 Hooper Avenue, recently opened 
in the Township of Toms River, Ocean County, New Jersey, 
in the Fourth Congressional District. 
(2) The local community, including veterans, believe that 
this facility deserves to be named in honor of Second Lieutenant 
Leonard G. ‘‘Bud’’ Lomell, a long time Toms River and Ocean 
County resident, 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 family eventually moved to Point Pleasant 
Beach, New Jersey. 
(4) After graduating from Tennessee Wesleyan College, 
Second Lieutenant Lomell was drafted into the Army, serving 
first with the 76th (Liberty Bell) Infantry Division. When the 
2nd Ranger Battalion was formed in April 1943, Leonard Lomell 
was invited to be the First Sergeant of D Company. 
(5) On D-Day, June 6, 1944, First Sergeant Lomell’s platoon 
landed at Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, successfully 
scaling the cliffs, despite a withering German defensive barrage. 
(6) Pointe du Hoc, a rugged 100-foot-high coastal prome-
nade along the English Channel was located between the Amer-
ican landing beaches, Omaha and Utah. It was heavily defended 
by the Germans and the mission of Colonel James Earl Rudder’s 
225 Rangers was to disable five 155-millimeter artillery guns, 
which could have rained artillery fire on the American forces 
landing on either beach, jeopardizing the invasion. 
(7) Unknown to the American forces, 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 batteries.
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(8) First Sergeant Lomell and another Ranger, Sergeant 
Jack Kuhn, found the guns undefended, and, with Kuhn pro-
viding cover, Lomell destroyed the weapons with thermite gre-
nades and used his rifle butt to smash the sights of the guns. 
(9) First Sergeant Lomell subsequently received a battle-
field promotion to Second Lieutenant, and was awarded some 
of the Army’s highest honors, including the Distinguished 
Service Cross, Purple Heart, and Silver Star. 
(10) Renowned historian Steven Ambrose regarded First 
Sergeant Lomell’s valiant acts along with General Eisenhower’s 
decision to invade on June 6, 1944, as the most significant 
actions ensuring the Allied victory on D-Day. 
(11) Following World War II, Second Lieutenant Lomell 
was appointed as the First Director of the newly organized 
Ocean County Veteran’s Service Bureau, serving from 1946 
until 1948, before he attended law school on the G.I. Bill. 
(12) Leonard Lomell and his wife, Charlotte Ewart Lomell, 
settled their growing family in Toms River, where, in 1957, 
Leonard established his own law firm, which grew to become 
one of Ocean County’s largest firms. 
(13) Leonard Lomell was involved in numerous local civic, 
business, and charitable organizations, including serving as 
president of the Ocean County Bar Association, a director of 
the First National Bank of Toms River, a member of the Dover 
Township Board of Education, and a co-founder of the Garden 
State Philharmonic. He was also National Commander of the 
Legion of Valor (1964-1965) and President of the Ranger Bat-
talion Association of World War II (1967) and served on the 
French Committee of Pointe du Hoc. 
(14) Second Lieutenant Lomell is profiled in ‘‘The Greatest 
Generation’’, former NBC news Anchor Tom Brokaw’s testa-
ment to the heroes of World War II, and ‘‘Len Lomell: D-
Day Hero’’, Steven M. Gillon’s entry in the American War 
Heroes Series. 
(15) As a decorated war hero, model citizen, and dedicated 
husband and father, Second Lieutenant Lomell is exceedingly 
deserving of the posthumous honor of having a new and long-
awaited Toms River-based Department of Veterans Affairs out-
patient 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 Department 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 VA Clinic’’. Any reference to such clinic 
in any law, regulation, map, document, record, or other paper
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of the United States shall be considered to be a reference to the 
Leonard G. ‘‘Bud’’ Lomell VA Clinic.
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.