Full Text of HR1094 98th General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, In accordance with the established tradition of | 3 | | the Illinois House of Representatives, it is fitting that, on | 4 | | Memorial Day, we honor our brothers and sisters who have given | 5 | | their lives in service to our country as the guardians of our | 6 | | long-held freedoms; and
| 7 | | WHEREAS, No better words have been written to honor those | 8 | | brave souls who were sacrificed long ago or pay tribute to the | 9 | | those brave men and women of today who have continued that | 10 | | fight for freedom than the Gettysburg Address; let us now | 11 | | recite those words so humbly said by our 16th President, | 12 | | Abraham Lincoln: "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers | 13 | | brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in | 14 | | Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are | 15 | | created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing | 16 | | whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so | 17 | | dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield | 18 | | of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, | 19 | | as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives | 20 | | that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and | 21 | | proper that we should do this. But, in the larger sense, we can | 22 | | not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we cannot hallow - this | 23 | | ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, | 24 | | have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or |
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| 1 | | detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we | 2 | | say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for | 3 | | us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished | 4 | | work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly | 5 | | advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great | 6 | | task remaining before us - that from those honored dead we take | 7 | | increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last | 8 | | full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that | 9 | | these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, | 10 | | under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that | 11 | | government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall | 12 | | not perish from the earth."; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, Those words from long ago still speak to those | 14 | | brave men and women of today who we now honor; it is all | 15 | | together fitting and appropriate that we, with heavy hearts, | 16 | | again accept the honor of reading the Roll Call of those | 17 | | American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines from the State | 18 | | of Illinois who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the | 19 | | preceding year since the previous tribute; therefore, be it
| 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 21 | | NINETY-EIGHTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that a | 22 | | copy of this resolution and a copy of the ceremonial honor roll | 23 | | and program of the May 26, 2014 reading of names be presented | 24 | | to the families of these fallen heroes.
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