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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 846 Offered February 2, 2007 Celebrating the life of Ngo Quang Truong. ---------- Patron-- Hull ----------

WHEREAS, Ngo Quang Truong, a general of the South Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War, died on January 22, 2007; and

WHEREAS, Ngo Quang Truong was born December 19, 1929, in the Vietnamese province of Kien Hoa and was commissioned into the army in 1954 after attending My Tho College and a military school; and

WHEREAS, after spending a dozen years in the elite airborne brigade, in 1966 Ngo Quang Truong became commander of the 1st Infantry Division in the city of Hue and in 1971 he took charge of the Mekong Delta region; and

WHEREAS, considered by his American counterparts to be a brilliant tactical commander, General Truong held the heart of Hue against the North Vietnamese during the Tet Offensive of 1968; and

WHEREAS, General Truong and his family fled Vietnam in 1975 when the North Vietnamese were heading towards victory, and after initially arriving in different parts of the United States, the family was reunited and settled in Falls Church; and

WHEREAS, General Truong wrote a number of books on military history and worked as a computer analyst for the Association of American Railroads for almost 10 years before retiring in 1994; and

WHEREAS, Ngo Quang Truong will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by his wife, their five children, and many other family members and friends; 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 Ngo Quang Truong; 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 Ngo Quang Truong as an expression of the General Assembly's respect for his memory.