HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 96

(By Delegates McGeehan, Hamilton and Folk)

[Introduced March 23, 2017]

Requesting the Division of Highways to name Bridge Number 05-1/8-0.03 (05A079) (40.36929, -80.54590), locally know as Colliers Way Bridge, carrying County Route 1/8 over Harmon Creek in Brooke County, West Virginia, the “U. S. Marine Corps Cpl Mark Douglas Cool Memorial Bridge”.

Whereas, Mark Douglas Cool, of Colliers, West Virginia, was born January 7, 1949, and grew up to become a United States Marine; and

Whereas, Mark Douglas Cool was trained as a mortarman and served with the H&S Company, 1^st Battalion, 26^th Marines, 3^rd Marine Division in Vietnam, reaching the rank of corporal; and

Whereas, Cpl Mark Douglas Cool died at the age of nineteen, March 2^nd, 1968, from wounds received in hostile action in Quang Tri Province in South Vietnam; and

Whereas, Cpl Mark Douglas Cool’s name is found at Panel 42E, Line 28 on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial; and

Whereas, Cpl Mark Douglas Cool was awarded the Purple Heart, National Defense, Vietnam Service and Vietnam Campaign Medals; and

 Whereas, It is appropriate to provide a memorial to this Colliers, West Virginia citizen who sacrificed his life for his country; therefore, be it

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to name Bridge Number 05-1/8-0.03 (05A079) (40.36929, -80.54590), locally know as Colliers Way Bridge, carrying County Route 1/8 over Harmon Creek in Brooke County, West Virginia, the “U. S. Marine Corps Cpl Mark Douglas Cool Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of the Division of Highways is hereby requested to erect signs at both ends of the bridge containing bold and prominent letters proclaiming the bridge the “U. S. Marine Corps Cpl Mark Douglas Cool Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates, forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Commissioner of the Division of Highways.