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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, In accordance with House Resolution 510, offered |
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| by Representative Ron Stephens during the 94th General |
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| Assembly, it has been fitting that each year in observance of |
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| Memorial Day that the Illinois House of Representatives has |
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| continued the established memorial tradition of honoring our |
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| fallen brethren by reading an annual list of all of the names |
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| of those American soldiers, sailors, airman, and marines from |
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| the State of Illinois that have given the ultimate sacrifice in |
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| the preceding year since the previous tribute; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that on |
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| May 29th 2008, the Illinois House of Representatives shall read |
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| the names of all of the soldiers, sailors, airman, and marines |
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| from each of the branches of the Unites States and Illinois |
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| military reserve and guard units, who have been killed in the |
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| line of duty during the year since the last tribute; and be it |
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| further
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| RESOLVED, That the list of fallen heroes is to be obtained |
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| by the Clerk of the House of Representatives no later than May |
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| 23rd, 2008, and that the clerk may enlist the help of the |
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| United States Department of Defense or the Illinois Department |
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| of Military Affairs so that the most accurate account of fallen |
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| soldiers, sailors, airman, and marines may be honored by the |
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| Illinois House of Representatives as well as the State of |
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| Illinois; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House shall, as has become |
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| tradition, preface the tributary reading of names of those |
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| fallen heroes with the reciting of a quote from President |
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| Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "The world will little |
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| note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never |
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| forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to |
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| be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought |
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| here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be |
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| dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from |
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| these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for |
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| which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here |
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| highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, |
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| that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, |
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| and that government of the people, by the people, for the |
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| people, shall not perish from the earth."; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution and a copy of the |
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| ceremonial honor roll and program of the May 29, 2008 reading |
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| of names be presented to the families of those fallen heroes; |
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| and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be presented to |