PRINTER'S NO. 1294
No. 156 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY KASUNIC, JULY 10, 2007
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, JULY 10, 2007
A RESOLUTION
1 Recognizing with sadness the supreme sacrifice of Army Sergeant
2 Eric R. Hull, who died on August 18, 2003, from injuries
3 sustained from a roadside bomb while courageously serving our
4 nation in Iraq.
5 WHEREAS, Army Specialist Eric Hull, 23, a resident of
6 Uniontown, was mortally wounded while returning with supplies
7 from Baghdad Airport, Iraq, on August 18, 2003, when his vehicle
8 struck a roadside bomb; and
9 WHEREAS, An Army Reservist cook, Spec. Hull was an assigned
10 member of the 99th Regional Support Command's 307th Military
11 Police Company based in New Kensington, Pennsylvania; and
12 WHEREAS, Spc. Hull has been posthumously promoted to the rank
13 of sergeant and awarded the Order of the Purple Heart and a
14 Bronze Star Medal; and
15 WHEREAS, Sgt. Hull graduated from Uniontown Area High School
16 in 1998, joining the Army Reserves between his junior and senior
17 year of high school, and he later earned an associate degree as
18 a chef from Westmoreland County Community College; and
1 WHEREAS, Sgt. Hull is survived by his high school sweetheart
2 and wife of five years, Missy Hull, their two children, Mia and
3 Dominic, and his parents, Deborah and Raymond Hull; and
4 WHEREAS, The Senate wishes to honor Sgt. Hull posthumously
5 for his courageous service to our nation; therefore be it
6 RESOLVED, That the Senate recognize with sadness the supreme
7 sacrifice of Army Sergeant Eric R. Hull, who died on August 18,
8 2003, from injuries sustained from a roadside bomb while
9 courageously serving our nation in Iraq.
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