N.Y. Highway Law § 346-a: System of state thruways to be designated as a section of a national network of Blue Star memorial highways

§ 346-a. System of state thruways to be designated as a section of a

national network of Blue Star memorial highways. The state thruways,

collectively, provided for by this article, shall be designated as the

New York state section of a national network of Blue Star memorial

highways, as a living memorial and tribute to those men and women who

served in the nation's armed forces in world wars I and II, the Korean

conflict, the Vietnam conflict, the Grenadan conflict, the Lebanese

conflicts, the Panamanian conflict and the Persian Gulf War known as

Operation Desert Shield - Operation Desert Storm. Such designation shall

not be considered as an official name for said thruways.