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AL HJR205
Joint Resolution
Status
5/6/2021
Primary Sponsor
Mike Jones
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AI Summary
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Designates a portion of Alabama State Highway 55 South from Andalusia to Florala in Covington County as "Medal of Honor Recipient Sergeant Rodney J. Evans Memorial Mile"
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Honors Sergeant Rodney J. Evans, the sole Medal of Honor recipient from Covington County, who died July 18, 1969, one day after his twenty-first birthday in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam
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Recognizes Sergeant Evans's heroic actions during a reconnaissance mission where he sacrificed himself by absorbing the full impact of an enemy mine detonation, saving his comrades from probable death or injury
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Directs appropriate authorities to erect and maintain signs and markers specifying this memorial designation
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Requests the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of fabricating and erecting signs, with actual erection to occur upon receiving funds from non-state sources
Legislative Description
State Highway 55 South in Covington County, renamed in honor of Sgt. Rodney J. Evans
Resolutions, Designation
Last Action
Delivered to Governor at 2:22 p.m. on May 6, 2021.
5/6/2021