PRINTER'S NO. 2648
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
552
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY READSHAW, RYAN, KULIK, HENNESSEY, WHEATLEY, KORTZ,
BIZZARRO, HARKINS, SCHLOSSBERG, COX, RAVENSTAHL, SONNEY,
CAUSER, SAINATO, KINSEY, POLINCHOCK, MALAGARI, HILL-EVANS,
FREEMAN, MURT, LONGIETTI, PYLE, STAATS, DiGIROLAMO, T. DAVIS,
MILLARD, JAMES, SOLOMON, TOEPEL, YOUNGBLOOD, BARRAR, DELLOSO,
DeLUCA, HOWARD, MACKENZIE, OBERLANDER, McNEILL, CALTAGIRONE,
BROWN, MERSKI, PICKETT, KAUFFMAN, BURNS, ROTHMAN, JOZWIAK,
HICKERNELL, BOBACK, MENTZER, DEASY, MOUL, BERNSTINE, KEEFER
AND SCHWEYER, OCTOBER 11, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, OCTOBER 11, 2019
A RESOLUTION
Honoring the 244th birthday of the United States Marine Corps on
November 10, 2019.
WHEREAS, The United States Marine Corps was founded as the
Continental Marines by a resolution passed by the Second
Continental Congress on November 10, 1775, which raised two
battalions of Marines; and
WHEREAS, The birth of the Marine Corps was to augment naval
forces in the Revolutionary War; and
WHEREAS, The Tun Tavern on Water Street in Philadelphia, the
original recruiting headquarters, is considered the Marine
Corps' birthplace; and
WHEREAS, In 1798, President John Adams signed the law
establishing the Marine Corps as a permanent military force
under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Navy; and
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