PRINTER'S NO. 4337
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
990
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY BARRAR, SAINATO, BIZZARRO, BOBACK, BROOKS, BROWN,
BURNS, CAUSER, COX, SCHLEGEL CULVER, DAVANZO, DEASY, DELLOSO,
DRISCOLL, GALLOWAY, HICKERNELL, HILL-EVANS, HOHENSTEIN,
HOWARD, ISAACSON, KINSEY, KNOWLES, KORTZ, KULIK, LONGIETTI,
MARSHALL, McNEILL, MENTZER, MILLARD, MURT, PICKETT,
POLINCHOCK, READSHAW, RYAN, SAPPEY, SCHLOSSBERG, SONNEY,
STRUZZI, THOMAS, TOEPEL AND ULLMAN, SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Designating September 14, 2020, as "EMS Memorial Day" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, In 1998, the United States Congress designated the
National EMS Memorial Service be held annually, as the official
EMS Memorial Service in the United States; and
WHEREAS, The objective of the EMS Memorial Service is to
remember and honor those emergency medical services personnel
who have died in the line of duty and to recognize the ultimate
sacrifice they have made for their fellow man; and
WHEREAS, The traveling memorial of the National EMS Memorial
Service, the Tree of Life, is erected every year; and
WHEREAS, The Tree of Life bears a representation of an oak
tree to symbolize strength along with the name, agency and date
of loss of each National EMS Memorial Service honoree engraved
on a bronze oak leaf; and
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