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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION

  
 
2    WHEREAS, It is highly fitting that the Illinois General

3Assembly pays honor and respect to individuals who have given

4their lives in service to their communities; and
  
 
5    WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Lincoln Hollinsaid was raised in 
6Lake Wildwood and later moved to Malden; he graduated from 
7Princeton High School; and
  
 
8    WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Hollinsaid enlisted in the United 
9States Army in 1995; before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, he 
10transferred to a different military unit to have a better 
11opportunity of serving in combat; and
  
 
12    WHEREAS, On April 7, 2003, Staff Sergeant Hollinsaid was 
13the platoon SGT when they had been assigned a mission to tear 
14down a wall that aligned with Highway 8 near the Baghdad 
15airport; after a section had come down, he walked forward to 
16see what was there; at that time, enemy combatants fired upon 
17him, and he was hit by small arms fire and an RPG; he died 
18instantly; and
  
 
  
19    WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Hollinsaid was an avid outdoorsman 
20and loved to hunt and drive his pickup, which he had adapted to 
21use for four wheeling in the rough terrain and mountains of 
 
 
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1Southern California; therefore, be it
  
 
2    RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE ONE HUNDRED FIRST GENERAL 
3ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
4CONCURRING HEREIN, that we designate the Main Street bridge 
5over I-80 in Princeton as the "Staff Sergeant Lincoln 
6Hollinsaid Memorial Bridge"; and be it further
  
 
7    RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation

8is requested to erect at suitable locations, consistent with

9State and federal regulations, appropriate plaques or signs

10giving notice of the name "Staff Sergeant Lincoln Hollinsaid 
11Memorial Bridge"; and be it further
  
 
12    RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be 
13presented to the family of Staff Sergeant Hollinsaid and the 
14Secretary of Transportation.