GUILDERLAND — By this time next year, part of Guilderland’s major thoroughfare, Western Avenue, may well be named after the highest-ranking American military officer killed in a combat zone since the Vietnam War, Guilderland native Major General Harold J. Greene.

Greene, 55, was killed on Aug. 5, 2014 in an “insider attack,” shot by an Afghan soldier as he met with other senior officials.

Steve Oliver, president of the American Legion Riders and sergeant-at-arms with the American Legion Helderberg Post 977, said that he met recently with New York Senator George Amedore, Jr. (R, 46th Senate District) to ask the senator to propose a bill that would rename a portion of Route 20 after Greene.

“We don’t let people forget,” Oliver said. “We want to let the families know that the veterans’ community doesn’t just do the initial fanfare and then disappear.”

The portion that Oliver has suggested is the part that runs from the Stewart’s at Route 146 to Carman Road.

That section of Route 20 passes the Town ’N’ Country Lanes bowling alley, where a mural of a billowing three-dimensional flag, with a shadow image of Greene at its center and his name at the top, was painted by Scott LoBaido in 2014.

It also passes by the entrance to the Haven Hills neighborhood of Guilderland where Greene was raised. Oliver mentioned that the Riders had returned to Greene’s childhood home on East Old State Road in August on the one-year anniversary of his death, to honor the fallen commander and to line the lawn with American flags, just as they did a year earlier. Greene’s father still lives in the house.

The proposed Greene avenue at its western end would meet up with the start of the stretch of Carman Road that earlier this year was named for Lieutenant Colonel Todd Clark.

Clark was another Army officer raised in Guilderland and killed in an insider attack in Afghanistan. Clark was killed in June 2013. The portion of State Route 146 that runs from Route 20 to Lydius Street — past St. Madeleine Sophie Church, where Clark was married and where his funeral was held — was in July renamed the Todd Clark Memorial Highway.

Eileen Miller of Amedore’s office confirmed that Amedore would be submitting this bill to the Senate after it reconvenes in January. Amedore will also reach out to the Assembly to find a sponsor there, she said. The bill would need to pass both the Senate and Assembly and then, as a final step, be signed by the governor.

A street in Massachusetts has already been named in Greene’s honor. In July, Kansas Street in Natick — which leads to the Army base where Greene commanded the Natick Soldier Systems Center from 2009 to 2011 — was renamed General Greene Avenue.