Indiana 2022 Regular Session

Indiana House Bill HCR0028 Compare Versions

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Old	New	Differences
1	1	HC1030
2	2	Introduced Version
3	3	HOUSE CONCURRENT
4	4	RESOLUTION No. ____
5	5	DIGEST OF INTRODUCED RESOL UTION
6	6	A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Morris
7	7	Ruffin.
8	8	Pryor, Shackleford, Bartlett, Harris,
9	9	Hatcher, Jackson, Pack, Porter,
10	10	Smith V, Summers
11	11	_______________________, read first time and referred to Committee on
12	12	20222506
13	13	2022 HC 1030/DI 140 Introduced
14	14	Second Regular Session of the 122nd General Assembly (2022)
15	15	HOUSE CONCURRENT
16	16	RESOLUTION No. ____
17	17	1 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION honoring Morris Ruffin.
18	18	2 Whereas, Morris Ruffin was born on September 5, 1926, in
19	19	3 Caddo Pass, Louisiana, as the second of nine children to
20	20	4 Clarence and Mary Ruffin. After the passing of his mother at a
21	21	5 young age, Morris assumed the duties of his late mother and
22	22	6 helped to raise his younger siblings;
23	23	7 Whereas, Morris enlisted in the United States Marine Corps
24	24	8 in March 1942 during World War II and was stationed at Camp
25	25	9 Lejeune, North Carolina, where he served under, and was
26	26	10 trained by, Sergeant Major Gilbert "Hashmark" Johnson, one
27	27	11 of the first black men to serve and lead Marines in combat.
28	28	12 Morris served one enlistment as a cook and was honorably
29	29	13 discharged in 1946 at the rank of Private First Class. Morris
30	30	14 took great pride in his time in the Marine Corps and his
31	31	15 experience as a cook;
32	32	16 Whereas, Morris was always an impeccably dressed man and
33	33	17 carried himself with great pride, no matter his station in life. It
34	34	18 was this image that caught the eye of his future wife, Verdel
35	35	19 Darden, whom he met on a bus in Texas, where she mistook
36	36	20 him for a doctor at the hospital where he worked as a janitor;
37	37	21 Whereas, After marrying Verdel, Morris and his wife
38	38	22 migrated north to Flint, Michigan, where he took a job with
39	39	23 General Motors while Verdel became a schoolteacher. Both
40	40	24 positions became their careers as they reared four children:
41	41	25 Harriet, Charles, Morris, and Renee. Morris retired from
42	42	26 General Motors after 34 years of dedicated service, being as
43	43	27 proud of this service as he was of his time in the Marine Corps;
44	44	2022 HC 1030/DI 140 2
45	45	1 Whereas, Morris spent his retirement years tending to his
46	46	2 family and grandchildren, whom he ensured were always well
47	47	3 taken care of and looked after. He passed away in July 2004
48	48	4 and will be posthumously awarded the Montford Point Marine
49	49	5 Congressional Gold Medal this February as a member of the
50	50	6 Montford Point Marines, who honorably served as the first
51	51	7 African Americans in the United States Marine Corps. It is an
52	52	8 honor that Morris did not seek, but an honor that he earned as
53	53	9 a trailblazer and honorable American serving his country in a
54	54	10 time of need. It was this sense of service Morris carried with
55	55	11 him his entire life;
56	56	12 Whereas, Morris Ruffin's service to this country paved the
57	57	13 way for many more men of color like him to serve his country
58	58	14 honorably, including his grandson, combat veteran Marine
59	59	15 Corps Sgt. Reginald L. Moore, who served from 1993 to 2005,
60	60	16 a fellow Hoosier who joined the Marine Corps out of Muncie,
61	61	17 Indiana; and
62	62	18 Whereas, Today we honor Private First Class Morris Ruffin,
63	63	19 a son, a brother, a husband, a grandfather, and one of the first
64	64	20 men of color to earn the title of Marine: Therefore,
65	65	21 Be it resolved by the House of Representatives
66	66	22 of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana,
67	67	23 the Senate concurring:
68	68	24 SECTION 1. That the Indiana General Assembly honors
69	69	25 Private First Class Morris Ruffin as he is posthumously
70	70	26 awarded the Montford Point Marine Congressional Gold Medal.
71	71	27 SECTION 2. That the Principal Clerk of the House of
72	72	28 Representatives shall transmit copies of this resolution to
73	73	29 Representative Cherrish Pryor.
74	74	2022 HC 1030/DI 140