PRINTER'S NO. 618
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
64
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY SCHWANK, DINNIMAN, BROOKS, FONTANA, SABATINA,
GREENLEAF, BROWNE, BREWSTER, RESCHENTHALER, HAYWOOD, WARD,
HUTCHINSON, RAFFERTY, COSTA, YUDICHAK, LANGERHOLC, FOLMER,
TARTAGLIONE, KILLION, VULAKOVICH, HUGHES, MENSCH, AUMENT AND
SCAVELLO, MARCH 28, 2017
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, MARCH 28, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Designating March 29, 2017, as "Female Veterans Recognition Day"
in Pennsylvania and encouraging all Pennsylvanians to join in
recognizing, appreciating and saluting the service and
sacrifices of more than 71,000 female veterans who live in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Women have a long, courageous and largely
unrecognized history of military service to our country; and
WHEREAS, At the founding of our nation, women provided
important support services as nurses, cooks, laundresses and
clerks for the troops and heroically stepped up to the front
lines or risked their lives in other ways; and
WHEREAS, Margaret Corbin and Mary "Molly Pitcher" McCauley
manned their fallen husbands' cannons at the battles of Fort
Washington and Monmouth and Ann Simpson Davis carried supplies
and messages across enemy lines during the southeastern
Pennsylvania campaign of the War of Independence; and
WHEREAS, Throughout the history of our nation, women such as
Clara Barton, who cared for the wounded and dying from Antietam
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