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2002 SESSION


HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 289
On the death of Bryan C. Jack.

Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 1, 2002
Agreed to by the Senate, February 7, 2002

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 Bryan C. Jack of Alexandria, a passenger on American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon on September 11; and

WHEREAS, a native of Texas, Bryan Jack was a National Merit Scholar, a Presidential Scholar, and a Henry Luce Scholar and held a master's degree from Stanford University and a doctorate in economics from the University of Maryland; and

WHEREAS, well-known among his Pentagon colleagues as a brilliant mathematician, Bryan Jack was head of programming and fiscal economics in the Office of the Secretary of Defense; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly note with great sadness the loss of Bryan C. Jack, 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 Bryan C. Jack as an expression of the heartfelt condolences of the General Assembly of Virginia.