Full Text of HR0819 103rd General Assembly
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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION | 2 | | WHEREAS, In accordance with the established tradition of | 3 | | the Illinois House of Representatives, it is fitting that we | 4 | | honor our brothers and sisters who have given their lives in | 5 | | service to our country as the guardians of our long-held | 6 | | freedoms; and | 7 | | WHEREAS, To honor those brave souls who were sacrificed | 8 | | long ago or to pay tribute to the those brave men and women of | 9 | | today who have continued that fight for freedom, no better | 10 | | words have been written than the Gettysburg Address; let us | 11 | | now recite those words so humbly said by our 16th President, | 12 | | Abraham Lincoln: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers | 13 | | brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in | 14 | | Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are | 15 | | created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing | 16 | | whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so | 17 | | dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield | 18 | | of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, | 19 | | as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives | 20 | | that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and | 21 | | proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we | 22 | | cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this | 23 | | ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, | 24 | | have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or |
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| 1 | | detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what | 2 | | we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is | 3 | | for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the | 4 | | unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so | 5 | | nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the | 6 | | great task remaining before us, that from those honored dead | 7 | | we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave | 8 | | the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve | 9 | | that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, | 10 | | under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that | 11 | | government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall | 12 | | not perish from the earth."; and | 13 | | WHEREAS, Those words from long ago still speak to the | 14 | | sacrifice of the brave men and women whom we now honor; it is | 15 | | altogether fitting and appropriate that we, with heavy hearts, | 16 | | again accept the honor of reading the roll call of those | 17 | | American Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines from the State | 18 | | of Illinois who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the years | 19 | | since the previous tribute; therefore, be it | 20 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | 21 | | HUNDRED THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that | 22 | | a copy of this resolution be presented to the families of the | 23 | | fallen heroes honored on May 22, 2024. |
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