PRINTER'S NO. 1050
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
178
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY RAPP, GROVE, RYAN, BOBACK, JAMES, BAKER,
CALTAGIRONE, METZGAR, CORBIN, TOOHIL, DAVIS, QUIGLEY,
MILLARD, ENGLISH, COX, READSHAW, ROZZI, MATZIE, PEIFER,
O'NEILL, V. BROWN, SAINATO, MURT, DiGIROLAMO, PICKETT,
DRISCOLL, MACKENZIE, STAATS, BARRAR, TALLMAN, SONNEY, DUSH,
CAUSER, KINSEY, BIZZARRO, MARSICO, WATSON, McNEILL, FREEMAN,
SOLOMON, LONGIETTI AND MARSHALL, MARCH 22, 2017
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
MARCH 22, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Recognizing March 30, 2017, as "Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans
Day" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, The Vietnam Conflict was fought in Vietnam from 1961
to 1975, and it involved North Vietnam and the Viet Cong in
conflict with the United States and South Vietnam; and
WHEREAS, The United States became involved in the Vietnam
Conflict because policymakers in the United States believed that
if South Vietnam fell to a communist government then communism
would spread throughout the rest of Southeast Asia; and
WHEREAS, Members of the United States Armed Forces began
serving in an advisory role to South Vietnam in 1961; and
WHEREAS, As a result of the Gulf of Tonkin incidents on
August 2 and 4, 1964, the Congress of the United States
overwhelmingly passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Public Law
88-408) on August 7, 1964, which effectively handed over war-
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