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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION

  
 
2    WHEREAS, Private First Class Andrew N. Meari was assigned 
3to service in Afghanistan as
a member of 1st Battalion, 502nd 
4Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st
Airborne 
5Division (Air Assault); and
  
 
6    WHEREAS, While guarding an entrance point to Combat Outpost 
7Senjaray on November
1, 2010, PFC Meari and a comrade 
8intercepted a motorcycle-riding, explosive-armed
suicide 
9bomber who was trying to get into the American combat camp; and
  
 
10    WHEREAS, Upon being intercepted, the suicide bomber 
11detonated himself, killing himself
and two Americans, 
12including PFC Meari; and
  
 
13    WHEREAS, PFC Meari was killed in action in Afghanistan on 
14November 1, 2010
under circumstances that saved multiple lives 
15in the combat outpost that was under attack; and
  
 
16    WHEREAS, The memory of PFC Meari and his heroic service is 
17commemorated by his neighbors with PFC Andrew Meari Memorial 
18Park, located in his
home town of Plainfield; therefore, be it
  
 
  
19    RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE 
20HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE 
 
 
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1SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we designate the section of 
2Illinois Route 59 from Caton Farm Road to Illinois Route 126 as  
3the
"PFC Andrew Meari Memorial Highway"; and be it further
 
4    RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation 
5be requested to erect, at
suitable locations consistent with 
6State and Federal regulations, an appropriate plaque or
signs 
7giving notice of the name "PFC Andrew Meari Memorial Highway"; 
8and be it further
  
 
9    RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be 
10presented to Denise
Williams of Plainfield, the mother of 
11Private First Class Andrew N. Meari, and the Secretary of the 
12Illinois
Department of Transportation.