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\n\nIf you use this clinic, your care would not change. The bill only changes a name. A VA outpatient clinic sits at 207 Hamilton Road in Bloomington, Illinois. It would be renamed the \"Andrew Jackson Smith Medal of Honor Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic.\" Staff, hours, services, and costs stay the same. Every map, record, and legal reference to the old name would point to the new one.\n\nThe new name honors an Illinois soldier from the Civil War. Andrew Jackson Smith picked up his regiment's flag after the color bearer was killed at the Battle of Honey Hill in 1864. He carried it through enemy fire for the rest of the fight. Half the officers there were killed or wounded. The Medal of Honor came later, after his death. The new name would apply after the bill becomes law.
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