Section 13. Platoon Sergeant Alfred McCullough Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares that:
(1) Platoon Sergeant Alfred McCullough was born in Nanty Glo, Pennsylvania, on April 2, 1935, and graduated from Nanty Glo High School, now Blacklick Valley High School, in 1954.
(2) Sergeant McCullough served our country in the United States Army and was killed in action in Vietnam on June 6, 1968.
(3) Sergeant McCullough received the Silver Star posthumously for his actions on May 13, 1968, as Acting Platoon Leader during a reconnaissance mission in which his squadron came under automatic weapon and antitank rocket fire from a heavily fortified enemy position. Sergeant McCullough moved his platoon into an assault position and launched an effective counterstrike, overrunning the enemy's positions and leading an assault on the remaining enemy rocket fire teams in the area. Though wounded during the battle, Sergeant McCullough destroyed six one-man defensive positions using fragmentation grenades.
(4) Sergeant McCullough will hereby be remembered for his leadership and bravery in battle and his service to our country.
(b) Designation.--The bridge located on State Route 271 in Nanty Glo Borough, Cambria County, over the South Branch Blacklick Creek is hereby designated the Platoon Sergeant Alfred McCullough Memorial Bridge.
(c) Signs.--The Department of Transportation shall erect and maintain appropriate signs displaying the name of the bridge to traffic in both directions on the bridge.