PRINTER'S NO. 173
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
179
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY SNYDER, CUTLER, READSHAW, COHEN, DUSH, SONNEY,
D. COSTA, MILLARD, ELLIS, J. HARRIS, HENNESSEY, GRELL,
LONGIETTI, KINSEY, THOMAS, DiGIROLAMO, BENNINGHOFF, McCARTER,
SCHWEYER, BAKER, COX, KIM, HICKERNELL, HAHN, BARRAR, TOEPEL,
JOZWIAK, MAJOR, DRISCOLL, MARSHALL, GABLER, SAINATO, FARINA,
MARSICO, DeLUCA, DEASY AND TALLMAN, JANUARY 23, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 23, 2015
AN ACT
Designating a bridge on that portion of S.R. 88 over Muddy
Creek, Cumberland Township, Greene County, as the Army
Corporal Richard W. Kowalewski, Jr., Memorial Bridge.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Army Corporal Richard W. Kowalewski, Jr., Memorial
Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as
follows:
(1) Richard W. Kowalewski, Jr., was born on March 31,
1973, in Waynesburg.
(2) Richard W. Kowalewski, Jr., enlisted in the United
States Army and completed basic training in June 1992.
(3) Corporal Kowalewski was later assigned to the 3rd
Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment.
(4) As part of a United Nations peace keeping operation,
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Corporal Kowalewski was deployed to Somalia in August 1993.
(5) On October 3, 1993, Corporal Kowalewski, along with
17 other men, were killed in the Battle of Mogadishu. During
the battle, a group of Somalis, armed with automatic weapons
and rocket-propelled grenades, ambushed Corporal Kowalewski's
convoy while in route to rescue downed pilots of a Black Hawk
helicopter.
(6) The encounter has been described as one of our
country's most violent firefights since Vietnam. The battle
was later depicted in the famous novel and movie "Black Hawk
Down."
(7) For his heroic actions during battle, Corporal
Kowalewski was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor and
the Purple Heart.
(b) Designation.--The Bridge located on S.R. 88 in
Cumberland Township, Greene County, Section Q10, Segment
0300/0000, Structure Number S-31843, over Muddy Creek is hereby
designated the Army Corporal Richard W. Kowalewski, Jr.,
Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and
maintain appropriate signs which shall display the name of the
bridge designated in subsection (b).
Section 2. Effective date.
This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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