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| SENATE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Donald Bernard Farmer, U.S. Army, |
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| lost his life in Kuwait on December 19, 2004, when he was hit |
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| by a vehicle after stopping to help someone who had a flat |
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| tire; and
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| WHEREAS, Staff Sergeant Farmer, age 33, and a former |
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| Marine, grew up in Zion and was a 1989 graduate of Zion-Benton |
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| Township High School; he had an excellent record and was |
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| well-liked and well-respected at the high school where he was a |
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| standout on the football and track teams; he was a member of |
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| the high school's only undefeated football team his senior |
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| year; and
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| WHEREAS, He will be remembered as a little guy with a big |
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| heart; he was a wonderful man who loved the military service; |
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| he was very diligent with a good sense of humor, an excellent |
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| athlete, a person people gravitated toward because of his great |
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| disposition and ability to make people laugh; he was a man with |
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| an open heart and a caring soul, a man who many felt they were |
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| blessed to know and a man who will be sorely missed; and
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| WHEREAS, His willingness to serve his country will never be |
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| forgotten by a grateful State and nation; it is because of true |
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| heroes like Donald that each U.S. citizen has the freedoms they |
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| enjoy; and
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| WHEREAS, He is survived by his wife, Shanda Farmer; his |
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| children, Sharon, Dashaun, and Darion; his mother and father, |
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| Gwendolyn and Donald G. Farmer; his sister, Jennifer Farmer; |
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| and his brothers, Donovan Truss and Desmond Truss; therefore, |
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| be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE SENATE OF THE NINETY-FOURTH GENERAL |
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| ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that together with his |