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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2023 - 2024
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | April 13, 2023 02:06 PM |
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| From: | Representative Brian Smith |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Lance Cpl. Bernard Himes Memorial Highway |
| In the near future, I will be introducing legislation to designate a portion of Pennsylvania Route 310 between Knox Dale Road and Ash Street in McCalmont Township, Jefferson County, as the Lance Cpl. Bernard Himes Memorial Highway. Bernard Himes wanted to join the Marine Corps when he graduated from high school, but he was only 17 at the time. He presented his parents with the documentation needed to enlist in the United States Marine Corps and they signed. Upon Mr. Himes’ promotion to Lance Corporal, he was deployed to Vietnam. He was killed in action on Go Noi Island in South Vietnam on May 17, 1968, almost one year after his high school graduation. Colonel A.G. Schwenk, from Marine Headquarters in California, wrote the following in 1968: “Bernard’s cheerful disposition, attention to duty, and his conduct as a man and a Marine, won for him the respect of all who knew him.” For his valiant service in Vietnam, Lance Corporal Himes was awarded the Purple Heart along with many other service medals. Please join me in supporting this legislation in his memory. |
Introduced as HB1366
Memo Updated: April 13, 2023 02:07 PM