Bill Text: WV SCR29 | 2013 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Requesting DOH name bridge number 20-64-54.37 "Army Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess Bridge"
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)
Status: (Passed) 2013-04-13 - House Message received [SCR29 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2013-SCR29-Comm_Sub.html
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 29
(By Senators Wells, McCabe, Palumbo, Walters and Stollings)
[Originating in the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure]
Requesting the Division of Highways to name the bridge designated bridge number 20-64-54.37 the “Army Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess Bridge”.
Whereas, Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess was born on May 21, 1921, in Buena Vista, Virginia; and
Whereas, Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess was inducted into the United States Army on August 6, 1942, at the age of twenty-one; and
Whereas, Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess spent eleven months overseas, serving in England, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany during the Second World War; and
Whereas, Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess was a member of Company D of the 377th Infantry Regiment of the 95th Infantry Division organized in Texas; and
Whereas, The members of the 95th Infantry Division are known as the “Iron Men of Metz”, and renowned for fighting back fierce German counterattacks and for the eventual liberation of the town of Metz, in the northeast of France; and
Whereas, The people of Metz, and of France, have never forgotten the contributions of the Iron Men of Metz; and
Whereas, In honor of his service, which included maintaining and repairing weapons of an infantry heavy weapons company, Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess was honored by the French government with the Orde National de la Legion d’Honneur, presented to him in a ceremony at the French Embassy in Washington, D. C.; and
Whereas, Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess was also honored by the United States Army with a Good Conduct Medal, three Bronze Service Stars, France and Germany Theater Ribbons and an American Theater Ribbon; and
Whereas, Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess was honorably discharged from the United States Army on November 11, 1945; and
Whereas, Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess returned to the United States, where he worked for thirty-eight years as a millwright at Union Carbide until his retirement; and
Whereas, It is fitting and proper that the outstanding service to his country by Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess be honored by naming the bridge designated bridge number 20-64-54.37 the “Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess Bridge”; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name the bridge designated bridge number 20-64-54.37 the “Army Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess Bridge”; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the bridge as the “Army Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess Bridge”; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to Cpl. Kenneth R. Hess.