Senator Cherry offered the following resolution:

            Senate Resolution No. 26.

            A resolution commemorating March 26, 2009, as Support Our Troops Day.

            Whereas, Our troops who are currently serving our country deserve to have a day where they can be honored and recognized for the service they continue to provide for us; and

            Whereas, Alexandra Lynn McGregor, a former senior at Waterford Kettering High School and currently attending college at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), is to be commended for seeking out this day in remembrance of her grandfather and to pay tribute to our troops around the world; and

            Whereas, We need to have a day that shows the support of the present-day soldiers; and

            Whereas, It is important for the men and women who serve this country to know that we respect them and thank them for their tireless, and sometimes thankless, service to all of us; and

            Whereas, We would like to honor our troops as six o'clock Eastern Standard Time that evening by taking a moment of silence for our thoughts and prayers; now, therefore, be it

            Resolved by the Senate, That we hereby commemorate March 26, 2009, as Support Our Troops Day in Michigan and urge the appropriate observance thereof.