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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 408
Offered February 19, 2002
Celebrating the life of Rhonda Rasmussen.
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WHEREAS, on September 11, 2001, terrorists launched a violent attack on the United States, causing great destruction and horrible human suffering in New York, Virginia, and Pennsylvania; and

WHEREAS, the attack had a devastating effect in Virginia, home of the Pentagon and of many of the personnel, military and civilian, who served there; and

WHEREAS, among the victims of the Pentagon attack was Rhonda Rasmussen of Woodbridge, a civilian budget analyst; and

WHEREAS, a native of Loma Linda, California, Rhonda Rasmussen, married and the mother of four children, joined the Army in 1981 and earned a master's degree at Syracuse University in the Army's Comptrollership Program; and

WHEREAS, Rhonda Rasmussen and her husband Floyd Rasmussen, also a Pentagon employee, would have been married for 27 years on November 23, 2001; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly note with sadness the loss of Rhonda Rasmussen, an innocent victim of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare a copy of this resolution for presentation to the family of Rhonda Rasmussen as an expression of the heartfelt condolences of the General Assembly of Virginia.