Section 3. Abner Yoder Memorial Bridge.
(a) Findings.--The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Abner Yoder graduated from Hegins High School in 1936, was active in his local church and played on the Pitman's Farmers baseball team.
(2) On July 18, 1941, he joined the United States Army Air Corps and rose to the level of Technical Sergeant by August 1943.
(3) During his time in the Air Corps, he traveled to Australia, where he met his fiancée and joined a combat crew which flew missions on a B-52.
(4) On February 17, 1944, the plane he was on with his crew had engine troubles and attempted to return to the base but stalled and crashed. The entire crew, including Abner Yoder, was killed in the plane crash.
(5) Abner Yoder was 26 at the time of his death, and he was buried at the Manila American Cemetery in Manila, Philippines, near other fallen members of the Armed Forces.
(b) Designation.--The bridge on State Route 125 before Ridge Road in Pitman, Schuylkill County, is designated as the Abner Yoder 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.