IN HR0065

Recognizes the Weir Cook Memorial Project and supports its mission to honor Colonel Harvey Weir Cook, a World War I veteran from Wilkinson, Indiana who served in Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's Squadron and received the Distinguished Service Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster

Supports the "Coins for Cook" project to build a life-size statue of Colonel Cook to be placed inside the Weir Cook Terminal at Indianapolis International Airport

Honors Cook's contributions to aviation including helping establish Indianapolis' first principal airport, serving as its first manager, and becoming the first American Legion National Director of Aviation

Acknowledges Cook's role in convincing the Smithsonian Institution to recognize the Wright Brothers' flight at Kitty Hawk as the first powered aircraft flight

Notes Cook re-enlisted after Pearl Harbor and died in New Caledonia in the Southwest Pacific while training young pilots for combat