HJR193 Summary

• Commends United States Veteran George Hudson Place on receiving his high school diploma from Alma Bryant High School in Bayou La Batre on May 14, 2024.

• Place was born December 29, 1925, and joined the U.S. Navy at age 16, serving in World War II as Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class in the Pacific Theater on Engebi Island in the Marshall Islands for 18 months.

• Place was discharged from the Navy on April 26, 1946, and subsequently worked at Brookley Air Force Base and dedicated over seven decades to making shrimping nets for the Bayou La Batre community.

• The resolution recognizes Place's sacrifice of his education for military service and acknowledges his honorary high school diploma as earned through his lifetime of knowledge and skills gained from naval service and subsequent decades of work.

• Passed by the House on April 18, 2024, and adopted by the Senate on April 25, 2024.