Posted: | June 27, 2015 02:03 PM |
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From: | Representative Jack Rader, Jr. |
To: | All House members |
Subject: | POW/MIA CHAIR OF HONOR |
On Monday, June 29 before the close of business, I plan to introduce a very important and timely resolution that will go a long way in recognizing and remembering our American POW/MIAs. The resolution I will be submitting will congratulate Pocono Raceway for recognizing our veterans by placing a POW/MIA “Chair of Honor” within the raceway. Pocono Raceway was founded in the early 1960s by Dr. Joseph Mattioli, who served in World War II as a Navy medic in the Pacific. Pocono Raceway provides tickets to numerous military bases and uses ID.me, an identity verification service to provide members of the military and their families a 15 percent military discount to motorsports events. In recent years, commemorative chairs honoring American POW/MIAs have been placed in prominent locations and public venues across the United States and Pocono Raceway is helping to continue that effort and helping to set the stage for many more to follow in their path of honoring our warriors. On August 2, 2015 a POW/MIA Chair of Honor will be unveiled at the Pocono Raceway. Please consider joining me in sponsoring this very important resolution to continue the efforts to remember and pay tribute to the more than 91,000 servicemen and women who are unaccounted for from the wars and armed conflicts the United States has been involved in since World War I and to congratulate Pocono Raceway and all others who have pledged that American POW/MIAs will never be forgotten by placing a Chair of Honor at various public venues across this Commonwealth. |
Introduced as HR423