State of South Dakota
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EIGHTY-EIGHTH SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 2013
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615U0808
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HOUSE COMMEMORATION NO. 1026
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Introduced by: Representative Nelson and Senator Van Gerpen
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A LEGISLATIVE COMMEMORATION, Posthumously honoring Chief Warrant Officer Two
Hans Gukeisen.
WHEREAS, Hans Gukeisen volunteered to serve in the United States Army, was a member
of the Lead community, and selflessly paid the terrible costs for our freedoms while serving in
Iraq on May 9, 2003; and
WHEREAS, Chief Warrant Officer Two Hans Gukeisen's service and ultimate sacrifice
were in keeping with the highest traditions of South Dakota's veterans and the United States
Armed Forces; and
WHEREAS, we feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of ours which shall attempt
to beguile the family and friends from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But we cannot refrain
from even now tendering the consolation that may be found in this heartfelt appreciation and
respect of the people of South Dakota that Hans died protecting; and
WHEREAS, we pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of his family's and
friends' bereavement, and leave them only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the
solemn pride that is theirs to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT COMMEMORATED, by the Eighty-Eighth Legislature of the
State of South Dakota, that Chief Warrant Officer Two Hans Gukeisen is posthumously
honored, commended, and remembered for his service and noble sacrifices for the people of
South Dakota. In token of South Dakota's common perpetual grief at his loss, this
commemoration is enrolled and appropriately immortalized for posterity.
Requiescat in pace.