Gov. Rick Perry presented the 57-year-old US Airways pilot with a legislative resolution praising his safe landing of a US Airways jet on the Hudson River on Jan. 15, saving all aboard.
Sullenberger paid tribute to military veterans on the 65th anniversary of the Normandy invasion. The supreme allied commander of the invasion forces, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, was also a Denison native.
Sullenberger was to address the 2009 graduating class at Denison High School, 40 years after his own graduation from that school.
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