Bill Signing Ceremony – Oregon Medal of Honor Highway

Bill Signing Ceremony – Oregon Medal of Honor Highway sponsored by Bend Heroes Foundation. Date/Time: October 20, 2017 2:30 PM. Location: Deschutes County Service Building, Barnes and Sawyer Conference Room 1300 NW Wall St, Bend. Oregon Governor Kate Brown will visit Bend on Friday, October 20 to sign House Bill 2100 designating all 451 miles of US Highway 20 between Newport and Nyssa Oregon as the Oregon Medal of Honor Highway. The highway honors Oregon’s 26 Medal of Honor recipients who served during 8 major wars in 10 countries over 108 years from the Civil War to Vietnam. A new highway sign will be unveiled by Governor Brown, Mr. Robert D. “Bob” Maxwell, Deschutes County Commissioners and this Dick Tobiason. These “Bravest of the Brave” veterans are connected with 12 Oregon cities including Bend, home of our nation’s oldest living Medal of Honor recipient 96 year young Robert D. “Bob” Maxwell. Bob is the only Medal of Honor recipient living in Oregon and is the honored guest at the ceremony. The October 20 ceremony is about a week before Mr. Maxwell’s 97th birthday (Oct. 26). Mr. Maxwell’s extraordinary heroism during WWII in Besancon, France resulted in the award of the Medal of Honor, a second Silver Star, a second Purple Heart, French Croix de Guerre and French Legion of Honor. In companion legislation (House Concurrent Resolution 1), the Oregon legislature designated 12 Oregon cities as Medal of Honor City or Community to which the 26 recipients are connected: Agness, Bend,

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