PRINTER'S NO. 2261
No. 245 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY ROBBINS, LOEPER, BRIGHTBILL, MELLOW, TILGHMAN,
SALVATORE, LAVALLE, WENGER, BODACK, GERLACH, SLOCUM, HART,
HUGHES, BELAN, THOMPSON, WAGNER, TOMLINSON, HELFRICK, CONTI,
AFFLERBACH, MUSTO, PUNT, STAPLETON, MOWERY, COSTA, KUKOVICH,
TARTAGLIONE, STOUT, SCHWARTZ, MADIGAN, WHITE, DELP, KITCHEN,
CORMAN, KASUNIC, RHOADES, O'PAKE AND LEMMOND,
NOVEMBER 9, 1998
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, NOVEMBER 9, 1998
A RESOLUTION
1 Honoring all Pennsylvania veterans, on the occasion of Veterans'
2 Day, November 11, 1998, who served during war and peace.
3 WHEREAS, In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in
4 the eleventh month, the world rejoiced and celebrated because
5 after four years of bitter war an armistice was signed that
6 declared the "war to end all wars" over; and
7 WHEREAS, November 11 was set aside as Armistice Day in the
8 United States to remember the sacrifices men and women made
9 during the war in order to ensure a lasting peace; and
10 WHEREAS, On Armistice Day, soldiers who survived the war
11 marched in a parade through their hometowns and politicians,
12 public officials and veteran officers gave speeches and held
13 ceremonies of thanks for the peace they had won; and
14 WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States voted Armistice
15 Day a legal holiday in 1938, but Americans realized that the
1 previous war would not be the last one; and
2 WHEREAS, World War II began the following year, and nations
3 great and small again participated in a bloody struggle; and
4 WHEREAS, After World War II, Armistice Day continued to be
5 observed on November 11; and
6 WHEREAS, In 1953 townspeople in Emporia, Kansas, called the
7 holiday "Veterans' Day" in gratitude to the veteran in their
8 town; and
9 WHEREAS, Soon after, Congress passed a bill renaming the
10 national holiday as Veterans' Day; and
11 WHEREAS, Americans still give thanks to veterans for their
12 service on Veterans' Day with ceremonies and speeches, and at
13 11:00 a.m. many Americans observe a moment of silence in
14 remembrance of those who fought and for those who gave their
15 lives to preserve the freedoms that we now enjoy; therefore be
16 it
17 RESOLVED, That the Senate honor all Pennsylvania veterans on
18 the occasion of Veterans' Day, November 11, 1998, who served
19 during war and peace.
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