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| HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois House of |
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| Representatives wish to congratulate Harold 'Sparky' Songer on |
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| being chosen as a 2004 Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award |
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| recipient; and
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Humanities Council chose Harold |
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| Songer as a 2004 award recipient for his efforts in turning the |
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| former library in the Carnegie Building in Danville into the |
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| Vermilion County War Museum; the museum opened on Veterans Day |
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| in 1999; and
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| WHEREAS, The Illinois Humanities Council established the |
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| Studs Terkel Humanities Service Awards to celebrate unsung |
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| "humanities heroes" throughout Illinois; the award is named |
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| after the prize-winning oral historian and author, Studs |
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| Terkel, a prominent son of Illinois; and
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| WHEREAS, Mayor Scott Eisenhauer of Danville nominated |
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| Harold Songer for the award because of his efforts in leading a |
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| group of volunteers to create the war museum to honor local and |
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| national heroes, and to recognize Mr. Songer and the other |
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| volunteers not only for the tourism impact they have generated |
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| for the city by the creation of the museum, but more for |
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| providing a place of learning so that all may realize the price |
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| paid for our freedom; and
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| WHEREAS, Since the opening of the museum, thousands of |
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| school children, adults and military personnel have visited the |
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| site, and it is now widely known as one of the premier war |
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| museums in the Midwest; therefore, be it
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| RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE |
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| NINETY-THIRD GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that |
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| along with the citizens of this great state, we congratulate |
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