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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the House of Representatives of the |
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| State of Illinois learned with sadness of the death in Iraq of |
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| U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Gary T. Rovinski of Roseville |
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| on Monday, June 5, 2006; and
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| WHEREAS, Petty Officer Rovinski was a member of the U.S. |
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| Navy Seabees; he served as an equipment operator assigned to |
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| Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 25 based at Fort McCoy, |
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| Wisconsin; he had been in Iraq since March; and
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| WHEREAS, This was his second time serving in the military; |
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| he was in the U.S. Army during the first Gulf War as an eye |
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| specialist; he spent eight years in the U.S. Army and served as |
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| the non-commissioned officer in charge of the optometry section |
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| at Fort Lewis, Washington; he was an expert with the pistol and |
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| rifle and earned many medals from both the U.S. Army and Navy; |
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| and
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| WHEREAS, He was from Mountain Top, Pennsylvania, and earned |
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| a bachelor's degree from the College of Misericordia, where he |
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| majored in studio art and specialized in art therapy; he earned |
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| a master's degree at Miami University in Ohio; and
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| WHEREAS, Gary is remembered by his friends and family as a |
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| man who loved the Lord, his family, his country, and his fellow |
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| man; and
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| WHEREAS, The passing of Gary T. Rovinski has been deeply |
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| felt by many, especially his wife, Jenifer Rovinski, and his |
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| two children; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| we mourn the passing of Petty Officer 1st Class Gary T. |