Washington, Feb. 11 -- Representative Zach Nunn issued the following press release:
Representative Zach Nunn (IA-03), a Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, today joined Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) and the Iowa delegation to introduce legislation to rename two Veterans Affairs (VA) facilities in honor of Iowa National Guard Staff Sergeants Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar and William Nathaniel Howard who were killed in an ISIS-affiliated terrorist attack in Syria on December 13, 2025.
Once enacted, Rep. Nunn's Iowa National Guard Heroes Commemoration Act would rename the VA clinic in Des Moines as the "Staff Sergeant Edgar Torres-Tovar Clinic" and redesignate the VA's community-based outpatient clinic in Marshalltown as the "Staff Sergeant Willia...