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First Regular Session

Sixty-first General Assembly

LLS NO. R97@0688.01 DMR

STATE OF COLORADO




BY REPRESENTATIVES Pankey, Clarke, Dyer, Entz May, Miller, Owen, Reeser, Sinclair, and Taylor;

also SENATORS Blickensderfer, B. Alexander, Arnold, Coffman, and Duke.


HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 97-1019


WHEREAS, On December 7, 1941, United States military personnel stationed at the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor and surrounding military installations in Hawaii fought bravely and with unyielding courage in the face of an overwhelming attack launched by the Imperial Japanese Navy; and

WHEREAS, It is fitting and proper that those who fought and died so bravely on that fateful day of December 7, 1941, while standing under the flag of the United States of America, enduring in the face of catastrophic destruction and never conceding that the day would be lost, even as their comrades fell around them, should receive recognition for their valiant services in defense of their country; and

WHEREAS, The General Assembly has previously honored within the boundaries of the state of Colorado as the "Grand Army of the Republic Highway"; and

WHEREAS, Such designation of "U.S. Route 6" was made in 1939, over seventy years after the end of the Civil War; and

WHEREAS, The General Assembly should similarly honor those who were serving their country in the Armed Forces at Pearl Harbor and surrounding military installations in Hawaii on December 7, 1941, by designating the portion of "Interstate Highway 70" that is within the boundaries of the state of Colorado as the "Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway"; now, therefore,

Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Sixty­first General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:

That the General Assembly request to the state Transportation Commission that so much of the interstate highway known as "Interstate Highway 70" as is within the boundaries of the state of Colorado, shall be designated and known as the "Pearl Harbor Memorial Highway" and that suitable markers, monuments, or signage be paid for by donations to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association of Colorado and be placed upon said highway at points to be determined by the Commission.