PRINTER'S NO. 3123
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
661
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY MACKENZIE, MALAGARI, BERNSTINE, BIZZARRO, BOBACK,
BROWN, BURNS, DONATUCCI, FREEMAN, HEFFLEY, HILL-EVANS,
JOZWIAK, KIM, KNOWLES, KORTZ, LONGIETTI, MATZIE, MILLARD,
MURT, PICKETT, READSHAW, ROTHMAN, RYAN, SAINATO, SCHLOSSBERG,
STAATS AND DeLUCA, JANUARY 14, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 14, 2020
A RESOLUTION
Designating the month of March 2020 as "Greek-American Heritage
Month" in Pennsylvania and recognizing the constructive role
Greek Americans continue to play in the economic and cultural
development of our nation and this Commonwealth.
WHEREAS, The 2010 census identified more than 1.3 million
people of Greek ancestry in the United States; and
WHEREAS, Greek Americans remain proud of their heritage by
passing their traditions and loyalty to the United States on to
new generations of Greek Americans; and
WHEREAS, "Greek Independence Day" is a national holiday that
commemorates the start of the Greek War of Independence in 1821
and is celebrated annually in Greece on March 25; and
WHEREAS, In 1821, the Greek Commander-in-Chief Petros
Mavromichalis, a founder of the modern Greek state, remarked to
citizens of the United States that "it is in your land that
liberty has fixed her abode and . . . in imitating you, we shall
imitate our ancestors and be thought worthy of them if we
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