Full Text of HJR0025 103rd General Assembly
HJ0025 103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
| | HJ0025 | | LRB103 31575 MST 59762 r |
|
| 1 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION
| 2 | | WHEREAS, It is highly fitting that the Illinois General | 3 | | Assembly pays honor and respect to truly great individuals who | 4 | | have served our country and, in doing so, have made the
| 5 | | ultimate sacrifice for our nation; and
| 6 | | WHEREAS, Private First Class Donnie Joe Clough of | 7 | | Hindsboro was born to Joseph and Pearl Tate Clough in Tuscola | 8 | | on July 27, 1949; and
| 9 | | WHEREAS, PFC Clough volunteered to serve in the U.S. | 10 | | Marine Corps in July of 1968; he was sent overseas on January | 11 | | 27, 1969, serving as a rifleman in the 1st Marine Division, 2nd | 12 | | Battalion, 5th Marine, F Company; and
| 13 | | WHEREAS, PFC Clough was killed while on duty in the Quang | 14 | | Nam Providence in Vietnam on September 9, 1969; and
| 15 | | WHEREAS, PFC Clough was awarded the Purple Heart, the | 16 | | Combat Action Ribbon, the Vietnam Service Medal with one | 17 | | Service Star, the Vietnam Campaign Medal, the National Defense | 18 | | Service Medal, and the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal; and
| 19 | | WHEREAS, At the time of his passing, PFC Clough was | 20 | | survived by his parents; his brothers, Clyde Russel, Doyle |
| | | HJ0025 | - 2 - | LRB103 31575 MST 59762 r |
|
| 1 | | Wayne, Alvin Layel, and Bruce Dean; and his sisters, Virginia | 2 | | Taylor, Carol Layton, Debra Louise, Linda Sue, and Pamela Kay; | 3 | | and
| 4 | | WHEREAS, PFC Clough's name has been immortalized on Panel | 5 | | WI8, Line 61 of the Vietnam Wall Memorial in Washington, D.C.; | 6 | | therefore, be it
| 7 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 8 | | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, THE | 9 | | SENATE CONCURRING HEREIN, that we designate Illinois Route 133 | 10 | | as it travels through Hindsboro as the "PFC Donnie J. Clough | 11 | | Memorial Highway"; and be it further | 12 | | RESOLVED, That the Illinois Department of Transportation
| 13 | | is requested to erect at suitable locations, consistent with
| 14 | | State and federal regulations, appropriate plaques or signs
| 15 | | giving notice of the name "PFC Donnie J. Clough Memorial | 16 | | Highway"; and be it further
| 17 | | RESOLVED, That suitable copies of this resolution be | 18 | | presented to the family of PFC Clough and the Secretary of the | 19 | | Illinois Department of Transportation.
|
|