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TN HJR0727
Joint Resolution
Status
1/12/2026
Primary Sponsor
Jerome Moon
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AI Summary
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Urges U.S. Congress to enact legislation to repatriate the remains of 13 USS Intrepid sailors killed on September 4, 1804, during an attack on Tripoli harbor in the First Barbary War
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Five sailors' remains are located in Protestant Cemetery in Tripoli, Libya; eight are buried near the walls of Tripoli Castle
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Calls for exhumation, forensic identification if possible, and reinterment with full military honors at a veterans cemetery or Arlington National Cemetery's Tomb of the Unknowns
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Directs transmission of the resolution to U.S. House and Senate leadership and all members of the Tennessee Congressional delegation
Legislative Description
A RESOLUTION to urge the United States Congress to enact legislation to bring home the USS Intrepid sailors entombed in Libya.
Memorials, Congress
Last Action
Sponsor(s) Added.
3/16/2026