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House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda
House of Representatives
Session of 2013 - 2014
Regular Session
MEMORANDUM
| Posted: | February 20, 2013 01:04 PM |
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| From: | Representative Maria P. Donatucci |
| To: | All House members |
| Subject: | Resolution Designating March 13, 2013 as "K9 Veterans and Services Day" in the Commonwealth |
| In the very near future I will introduce a resolution designating March 13, 2013 as “K9 Veterans and Services Day” in the Commonwealth to recognize the important services provided by dogs and their trainers, handlers and other helpers over the years in the military, law enforcement and otherwise to save and protect human life. Joseph J. White, a retired Military Working Dog handler, began an effort some years ago to establish K9 Veterans Day annually on March 13, which is the day the official United States K9 Corps was created in 1942 for service in the Second World War and beyond. He believed strongly that the dogs that provided such services and their handlers, trainers and other helpers, all served to save lives and thus deserved such recognition. Today, K9 Services also can now include dogs and their handlers, trainers and other helpers involved in Customs, Search & Rescue, Border Patrol, Police Services, Secret Service, Drug Enforcement and many other capacities. In my view, they all have earned our thanks for their efforts to protect our Commonwealth’s and nation’s way of life due to the current war on terror and efforts to stop and fight crime. I hope you will join with me in sponsoring this resolution. |
Introduced as HR137