HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 32

(By Delegates T. Campbell, Canterbury, Crosier and Mahan)

Requesting the Division of Highways to name the new bridge in Alderson, West Virginia on Route 3, bridge number 32-3-0.01, as the “Ensign Melvin G. Livesay Memorial Bridge.”

    Whereas, Ensign Melvin G. Livesay was born on June 26, 1921, in West Virginia; and

    Whereas, Ensign Melvin G. Livesay was a dive bomber pilot in Air Group Fifteen, attached to the U.S.S. Essex in World War II; and

    Whereas, Ensign Melvin G. Livesay was shot down and killed, along with his gunner, on November 11, 1944; and

    Whereas, Ensign Melvin G. Livesay was awarded the Navy Cross, the highest award by the Navy, for his actions on October 25, 1944; and

    Whereas, Ensign Melvin G. Livesay was awarded the Air Medal for meritorious achievement in aerial flight as a pilot of a dive bomber, for actions against enemy Japanese forces from September 7, 1944 to October 21, 1944; and

    Whereas, Ensign Melvin G. Livesay was awarded the Purple Heart; therefore, be it

    Resolved by the West Virginia Legislature:

    That the Legislature hereby requests the Division of Highways to name the new bridge in Alderson, West Virginia on Route 3, bridge number 32-3-0.01, as the “Ensign Melvin G. Livesay Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

    Further Resolved, That the Division of Highways is hereby requested to have made and be placed signs identifying the bridge as the “Ensign Melvin G. Livesay Memorial Bridge”; and, be it

    Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates forward a certified copy of this resolution to the Secretary of the Department of Transportation and to the family of Ensign Melvin G. Livesay.