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2006 SPECIAL SESSION I


HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 5055
Celebrating the life of Captain Brian S. Letendre.

 

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, May 25, 2006
Agreed to by the Senate, June 6, 2006

 

WHEREAS, United States Marine Corps Captain Brian S. Letendre, aged 27, of Woodbridge was killed in the line of duty in Iraq on May 3, 2006; and

WHEREAS, Brian Letendre grew up in Woodbridge, was the captain of the soccer team at Potomac High School, graduated in 1996, and continued his education at Milligan College in Tennessee, where he earned a degree in computer science and married Autumn, his college sweetheart; and

WHEREAS, Brian Letendre joined the United States Marine Corps with two of his boyhood friends and was commissioned as a lieutenant in May 2000; and

WHEREAS, Brian Letendre trained at Quantico Marine Base to become a military infantry officer and served in Okinawa, Japan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before being deployed to Kuwait; and

WHEREAS, Captain Letendre served his country during his first tour in Iraq at the onset of the invasion, and his battalion proceeded north from Kuwait, encountering heavy combat in Nasiriyah and in other towns along the battle route; and

WHEREAS, Captain Letendre returned home to his family in 2003 as a decorated hero, but he answered a second patriotic call to duty because he could not stand by while his fellow Marines continued to carry on the fight in Iraq; and

WHEREAS, in April 2006, Captain Letendre volunteered for a second tour and deployed with an 11-man military transition team assigned to train Iraqi recruits in Al Anbar Province; and

WHEREAS, Captain Letendre was a member of the Marine Forces Reserve’s Inspector and Instructor Staff, 1st Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, 4th Marine Division, headquartered in Plainville, Connecticut; and

WHEREAS, on May 3, 2006, Captain Letendre was killed in the line of duty while performing combat operations in Al Anbar Province, when a suicide car bomber attacked his observation post; and

WHEREAS, Captain Letendre was devoted to his community, his loving wife and three-year-old son, his parents and two brothers, and numerous other family members and friends; and

WHEREAS, Captain Letendre's death is a reminder of the perils faced daily by the thousands of young Americans who serve in our armed forces overseas and whose devotion to duty places them in harm's way; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby note with great sadness the loss of a courageous and patriotic Virginian, Captain Brian S. Letendre; 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 Captain Brian S. Letendre as an expression of the high regard in which his memory is held by the members of the General Assembly and the citizens of Virginia.