Full Text of HR1325 95th General Assembly
HR1325 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, In accordance with House Resolution 510, offered | 3 |
| by Representative Ron Stephens during the 94th General | 4 |
| Assembly, it has been fitting that each year in observance of | 5 |
| Memorial Day that the Illinois House of Representatives has | 6 |
| continued the established memorial tradition of honoring our | 7 |
| fallen brethren by reading an annual list of all of the names | 8 |
| of those American soldiers, sailors, airman, and marines from | 9 |
| the State of Illinois that have given the ultimate sacrifice in | 10 |
| the preceding year since the previous tribute; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE | 12 |
| NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that on | 13 |
| May 29th 2008, the Illinois House of Representatives shall read | 14 |
| the names of all of the soldiers, sailors, airman, and marines | 15 |
| from each of the branches of the Unites States and Illinois | 16 |
| military reserve and guard units, who have been killed in the | 17 |
| line of duty during the year since the last tribute; and be it | 18 |
| further
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| RESOLVED, That the list of fallen heroes is to be obtained | 20 |
| by the Clerk of the House of Representatives no later than May | 21 |
| 23rd, 2008, and that the clerk may enlist the help of the | 22 |
| United States Department of Defense or the Illinois Department | 23 |
| 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 | 2 |
| Illinois House of Representatives as well as the State of | 3 |
| Illinois; and be it further | 4 |
| RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House shall, as has become | 5 |
| tradition, preface the tributary reading of names of those | 6 |
| fallen heroes with the reciting of a quote from President | 7 |
| Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "The world will little | 8 |
| note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never | 9 |
| forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to | 10 |
| be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought | 11 |
| here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be | 12 |
| dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from | 13 |
| these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for | 14 |
| which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here | 15 |
| highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, | 16 |
| that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, | 17 |
| and that government of the people, by the people, for the | 18 |
| people, shall not perish from the earth."; and be it further | 19 |
| RESOLVED, That a copy of this resolution and a copy of the | 20 |
| ceremonial honor roll and program of the May 29, 2008 reading | 21 |
| of names be presented to the families of those fallen heroes; | 22 |
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| RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be presented to |
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| each of the state legislatures throughout the United States and | 2 |
| its territories to encourage their annual participation in this | 3 |
| tribute to those Americans who have made the ultimate sacrifice | 4 |
| to guarantee our freedom.
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