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| 7 | 7 | | LLS NO. R25-0931.01 Asia Alosa x4829 |
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| 8 | 8 | | SJR25-017 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Senate Committees House Committees |
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| 10 | 10 | | SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 25-017 |
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| 12 | 12 | | ONCERNING HONORING PETTY OFFICER FIRST CLASS DANIEL T.101 |
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| 13 | 13 | | G |
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| 14 | 14 | | RIFFIN, AND, IN CONNECTION THEREWITH , DESIGNATING THE102 |
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| 15 | 15 | | N |
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| 16 | 16 | | ORTH ACADEMY BRIDGE AS THE "NAVAL AVIATION PILOT103 |
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| 17 | 17 | | AND AVIATION MACHINIST MATE PETTY OFFICER FIRST CLASS104 |
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| 18 | 18 | | D |
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| 19 | 19 | | ANIEL T. GRIFFIN BRIDGE".105 |
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| 20 | 20 | | WHEREAS, Petty Officer First Class Daniel T. Griffin was a1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | resident of Colorado Springs, attended Colorado Springs High School2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | prior to his enlistment in the United States Navy, and served as a naval3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | enlisted pilot assigned to Kaneohe Naval Air Station, Hawaii, in 1941,4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | flying the Consolidated PBY Catalina; and5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | WHEREAS, On the morning of Sunday, December 7, 1941,6 |
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| 26 | 26 | | Daniel T. Griffin was on duty with his PBY Catalina aircraft, and upon7 |
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| 30 | 27 | | SENATE |
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| 31 | 28 | | Final Reading |
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| 32 | 29 | | April 10, 2025 |
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| 33 | 30 | | SENATE SPONSORSHIP |
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| 34 | 31 | | Liston, Amabile, Baisley, Ball, Bridges, Bright, Carson, Catlin, Coleman, Cutter, Daugherty, |
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| 35 | 32 | | Exum, Frizell, Gonzales J., Hinrichsen, Jodeh, Kipp, Kirkmeyer, Kolker, Lundeen, |
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| 36 | 33 | | Michaelson Jenet, Mullica, Pelton B., Pelton R., Rich, Roberts, Rodriguez, Simpson, Snyder, |
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| 37 | 34 | | Sullivan, Wallace, Weissman, Winter F. |
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| 38 | 35 | | HOUSE SPONSORSHIP |
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| 39 | | - | Pugliese, Armagost, Bacon, Barron, Bird, Boesenecker, Bradley, Brooks, Brown, Caldwell, |
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| 40 | | - | Camacho, Clifford, DeGraaf, Duran, Espenoza, Feret, Garcia, Garcia Sander, Gonzalez R., |
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| 41 | | - | Hamrick, Hartsook, Jackson, Johnson, Keltie, Lindsay, Luck, Lukens, Mabrey, Marshall, |
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| 42 | | - | Martinez, McCluskie, McCormick, Paschal, Phillips, Richardson, Rutinel, Sirota, Stewart K., |
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| 43 | | - | Story, Suckla, Taggart, Titone, Weinberg, Woodrow, Woog |
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| 36 | + | Pugliese, |
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| 44 | 37 | | Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment. |
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| 45 | 38 | | Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing law. |
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| 46 | 39 | | Dashes through the words or numbers indicate deletions from existing law. recognition of the ongoing Japanese attack, he attempted to take off, but1 |
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| 47 | 40 | | was shot down by enemy aircraft. After making an emergency exit into2 |
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| 48 | 41 | | the water, and while swimming to shore, Griffin was fatally wounded by3 |
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| 49 | 42 | | enemy gunfire; and4 |
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| 50 | 43 | | WHEREAS, Petty Officer First Class Daniel T. Griffin is known5 |
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| 51 | 44 | | to be the first Coloradan killed and believed to be the first American6 |
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| 52 | 45 | | serviceman killed during the attack on Pearl Harbor; and7 |
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| 53 | 46 | | WHEREAS, Shortly after Griffin's death, Admiral Chester Nimitz,8 |
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| 54 | 47 | | Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet, issued a citation recognizing9 |
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| 55 | 48 | | Griffin's valor; in 1943, the United States Navy commissioned the USS10 |
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| 56 | 49 | | Daniel T. Griffin, a destroyer escort, in recognition of Griffin's sacrifice;11 |
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| 57 | 50 | | and12 |
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| 58 | 51 | | WHEREAS, Griffin's body was moved from its original burial13 |
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| 59 | 52 | | location in Hawaii and reinterred in Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado14 |
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| 60 | 53 | | Springs; now, therefore,15 |
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| 61 | 54 | | Be It Resolved by the Senate of the Seventy-fifth General Assembly16 |
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| 62 | 55 | | of the State of Colorado, the House of Representatives concurring herein:17 |
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| 64 | 57 | | (1) That the North Academy Bridge spanning Interstate 25 in19 |
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| 65 | 58 | | Colorado Springs be designated as the "Naval Aviation Pilot and Aviation20 |
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| 66 | 59 | | Machinist Mate Petty Officer First Class Daniel T. Griffin Bridge"; and21 |
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| 67 | 60 | | (2) That the Colorado Department of Transportation may explore22 |
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| 68 | 61 | | a cooperative agreement with the Colorado Springs City Council for the23 |
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| 69 | 62 | | maintenance of the signs marking the "Naval Aviation Pilot and Aviation24 |
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| 70 | 63 | | Machinist Mate Petty Officer First Class Daniel T. Griffin Bridge".25 |
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| 71 | 64 | | Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Joint Resolution be sent26 |
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| 72 | 65 | | to the Colorado Springs City Council, the Executive Director of the27 |
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| 73 | 66 | | Colorado Department of Transportation Shoshana Lew, and the28 |
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| 74 | 67 | | Transportation Commission of Colorado.29 |
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| 76 | 69 | | -2- |
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