Bill Text: WV SCR52 | 2014 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Requesting DOH place signage along highways entering WV honoring fallen veterans and Gold Star Families
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: (Passed) 2014-03-08 - House Message received [SCR52 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2014-SCR52-Comm_Sub.html
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 52
(By Senators Wells, Kessler (Mr. President),
Plymale, Jenkins, D. Hall, Green, Edgell, Cookman, Yost and Unger)
[Originating in the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure]
Requesting the Division of Highways to place signage along highways entering West Virginia honoring fallen veterans and Gold Star Families.
Whereas, More than ten thousand men and women from West Virginia have died during twentieth and twenty-first century military actions, either in combat or during the official period of conflict and prior to discharge from the military. The ultimate sacrifices made by these men and women for their country and West Virginia represent the highest levels of honor and courage and should not go unnoticed; and
Whereas, Gold Star Families are those families who have family members who died or were killed serving in the armed forces. They are the families of fallen military heroes, whether they gave their lives in Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea, WWII or another conflict; and
Whereas, Rather than attempt to acknowledge individually each of these fallen warriors and patriots by finding a bridge or stretch of road or highway to be named for the individual veterans, it would be a more worthy form of recognition, homage and honor to these heroes and heroines and the Gold Star Families if signage were erected at the highways that enter West Virginia; and
Whereas, One sign each should be placed at the ten most visible and most traveled highways entering West Virginia; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to place signage along highways entering West Virginia honoring fallen veterans and Gold Star Families; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of the Division of Highways is hereby requested to create and erect signs upon the ten most heavily traveled highways entering the State of West Virginia on which a “Welcome to West Virginia” sign is posted near a border crossing. To the extent permissible by signage rules and regulations, each sign should read “West Virginia is proud to honor its fallen Veterans and Gold Star Families” and have affixed to it a gold star symbol similar to the design of the lapel pin approved under 10 U. S. C. §1126; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways.
