Full Text of SR0264 95th General Assembly
SR0264 95TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened to | 3 |
| learn of the death of
U.S. Army Captain Joshua E. Steele of | 4 |
| North Henderson, who was killed in action near Panjway, | 5 |
| Afghanistan on June 17, 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Captain Joshua Steele was born on July 8, 1980, in | 7 |
| Galesburg; his parents were R. Philip and Paula Weir Steele; | 8 |
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| WHEREAS, Captain Joshua Steele was raised on a farm near | 10 |
| North Henderson and attended Immaculate Conception Parochial | 11 |
| School in Monmouth and Alexis High School; after graduating | 12 |
| from high school at the Missouri Military Academy in Mexico, | 13 |
| Missouri in 1998, he received his degree in geological | 14 |
| engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla magna cum | 15 |
| laude in 2002, where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Phi | 16 |
| Fraternity and the Society of Military Engineers; and
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| WHEREAS, Captain Joshua Steele was commissioned in the Army | 18 |
| in 2002 and was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri with | 19 |
| the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division Transition Team; he was | 20 |
| assigned to the 5th and later the 35th Engineering Battalion; | 21 |
| he was previously deployed in Iraq and the Republic of Georgia, | 22 |
| before being sent to Afghanistan in January 2007; and
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| WHEREAS, Captain Joshua Steele enjoyed geological | 2 |
| pursuits, as well as raising and showing swine, horseback | 3 |
| riding, hunting, and life on the farm; he was a member of the | 4 |
| 4-H and FFA in Alexis, the Civil Air Patrol in Galesburg; and | 5 |
| he was vice president of his junior class in high school; and
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| WHEREAS, Captain Joshua Steele will be remembered by all | 7 |
| who knew him as a bright and industrious young man; therefore, | 8 |
| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FIFTH GENERAL | 10 |
| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we mourn, along with | 11 |
| his family and friends, the passing of U.S. Army Captain Joshua | 12 |
| E. Steele; and be it further
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| RESOLVED, That we honor the memory of U.S. Army Captain | 14 |
| Joshua E. Steele and his willingness to serve our country, | 15 |
| which led to him making the ultimate sacrifice; and be it | 16 |
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| RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be | 18 |
| presented to the family of U.S. Army Captain Joshua E. Steele | 19 |
| as an expression of our sympathy.
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