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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 3544

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE RESOLUTION

No. 690 Session of 2008


        INTRODUCED BY STERN, KING, PERRY, SABATINA, D. O'BRIEN, GEORGE,
           GRELL, MAJOR, BEYER, SWANGER, KENNEY, SAINATO, GODSHALL,
           FABRIZIO, RUBLEY, BELFANTI, GRUCELA, RAMALEY, BAKER, HELM,
           PAYNE, YOUNGBLOOD, VULAKOVICH, JAMES, READSHAW, RAPP, GEIST,
           CREIGHTON, HERSHEY, MILLARD, SANTONI, LENTZ, SOLOBAY, ROAE,
           MANN, MARKOSEK, PHILLIPS, BROOKS, PYLE, SCAVELLO, CAPPELLI,
           SIPTROTH, SAYLOR, GINGRICH, DiGIROLAMO, COHEN, WOJNAROSKI,
           FRANKEL, CALTAGIRONE, MURT, JOSEPHS, HARPER, KOTIK, CLYMER,
           BRENNAN, NAILOR, REICHLEY, CASORIO, FLECK, GOODMAN, PICKETT,
           ROSS, MANTZ, McILHATTAN, MELIO, FAIRCHILD, DALEY,
           R. STEVENSON, J. WHITE, PETRARCA, MUSTIO, CIVERA, CAUSER,
           MARSHALL, PETRONE, PALLONE, HARHART, McGEEHAN, FREEMAN,
           O'NEILL, K. SMITH, MYERS, MOYER, MILNE, BOBACK, MOUL, KULA,
           ARGALL, HUTCHINSON, LONGIETTI, DeLUCA, BENNINGHOFF, HORNAMAN,
           BEAR, HENNESSEY, EVERETT, R. MILLER, BASTIAN, SONNEY,
           CONKLIN, WATSON, BOYD, GILLESPIE, QUINN, HESS, MANDERINO AND
           DENLINGER, APRIL 3, 2008

        INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
           APRIL 3, 2008

                                  A RESOLUTION

     1  Honoring the memory of the law enforcement officers who gave
     2     their lives in the line of duty in this Commonwealth and
     3     recognizing the memorial service in their honor in Soldiers'
     4     Grove at the State Capitol Complex on May 5, 2008.

     5     WHEREAS, Officer Walter Barclay of the Philadelphia Police
     6  Department made the ultimate sacrifice on August 19, 2007; and
     7     WHEREAS, Officer Scott Ball of the Pennsylvania State Police
     8  made the ultimate sacrifice on August 27, 2007; and
     9     WHEREAS, Officer Charles Cassidy of the Philadelphia Police
    10  Department made the ultimate sacrifice on November 1, 2007; and
    11     WHEREAS, The deaths of these law enforcement officers make a

     1  total of 702 officers who, through the year 2007, made the
     2  ultimate sacrifice since the beginning of law enforcement within
     3  this Commonwealth; and
     4     WHEREAS, A Venango County constable who died in April 1825 is
     5  believed to be the first officer to have given his life in the
     6  line of duty in this Commonwealth; and
     7     WHEREAS, "National Police Memorial Day" is held on May 15
     8  each year; and
     9     WHEREAS, The week containing May 15, is celebrated each year
    10  as "National Police Week"; and
    11     WHEREAS, On October 1, 1962, Joint Resolution 730 of the 87th
    12  Congress of the United States was signed, authorizing the
    13  President to proclaim May 15 of each year as "Peace Officers
    14  Memorial Day"; and
    15     WHEREAS, Twenty years passed before the first "National
    16  Police Memorial Day" was recognized on May 15, 1982; and
    17     WHEREAS, May 15 has continued to be observed annually in
    18  memory of those police officers who made the ultimate sacrifice
    19  in the line of duty; and
    20     WHEREAS, The Pennsylvania State Lodge of the Fraternal Order
    21  of Police presents the annual memorial service in this
    22  Commonwealth; therefore be it
    23     RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives honor the
    24  memories of Officer Walter Barclay, Officer Scott Ball and
    25  Officer Charles Cassidy, the law enforcement officers who gave
    26  their lives in the line of duty in this Commonwealth in 2007,
    27  and recognize the memorial service in their honor in Soldiers'
    28  Grove at the State Capitol Complex on May 5, 2008.


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