support of Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert
Storm.
(4) SPC Mayes was killed on February 25, 1991, when an
Iraqi scud missile destroyed a United States military
barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in the final days of the
Persian Gulf War.
(b) Designation.--The bridge located on that portion of
State Route 1041 over the Mahoning Creek in Grant Township and
Canoe Township, Indiana County, is designated the Army SPC
Christine L. Mayes Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to
traffic in both directions on the bridge.
SECTION 2. SGT. EDWARD JOHN PARADA MEMORIAL BRIDGE.
(A) FINDINGS.--THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FINDS AND DECLARES AS
FOLLOWS:
(1) SGT. EDWARD JOHN PARADA WAS BORN AND RAISED IN
MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, INDIANA COUNTY, AND GRADUATED FROM
PURCHASE LINE HIGH SCHOOL.
(2) ON AUGUST 27, 1970, SGT. PARADA WAS KILLED IN ACTION
IN VIETNAM WHILE SERVING WITH THE UNITED STATES ARMY COMPANY
E, 327TH INFANTRY Regiment, 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION.
(B) DESIGNATION.--THE BRIDGE LOCATED ON STATE ROUTE 286 OVER
THE SOUTH BRANCH CUSH CREEK RIVER, MONTGOMERY TOWNSHIP, INDIANA
COUNTY, IS DESIGNATED AS THE SGT. EDWARD JOHN PARADA MEMORIAL
BRIDGE.
(C) SIGNS.--THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SHALL ERECT AND
MAINTAIN APPROPRIATE SIGNS DISPLAYING THE NAME OF THE BRIDGE TO
TRAFFIC IN BOTH DIRECTIONS ON THE BRIDGE.
Section 2 3. Effective date.
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