Bill Text: IL HR0530 | 2017-2018 | 100th General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: Urges Illinois communities to become involved in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Foundation's "Wall of Faces" project to help locate pictures of soldiers whose photos were lost.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-4)
Status: (Passed) 2017-11-08 - Resolution Adopted as Amended [HR0530 Detail]
Download: Illinois-2017-HR0530-Enrolled.html
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1 | HOUSE RESOLUTION 530
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2 | WHEREAS, When the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, | ||||||
3 | D.C. was finished in 1983, the wall listed
more than 58,000 | ||||||
4 | servicemen and women who had either died in action or went | ||||||
5 | missing during the
Vietnam War; and
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6 | WHEREAS, Due to a fire at government storage facility in | ||||||
7 | 1973, the United States military lost millions of personnel
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8 | records, including many of those who were listed on the wall; | ||||||
9 | and
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10 | WHEREAS, The military and other organizations made efforts | ||||||
11 | to recover the lost data; 24,000 veterans
listed on the wall | ||||||
12 | still had no picture in military records as of 2013; and
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13 | WHEREAS, In January of 2017, the Illinois Press Association | ||||||
14 | Foundation joined the National Newspaper
Association in | ||||||
15 | coordinated effort to recover the 579 missing Illinois | ||||||
16 | veterans' photos; and
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17 | WHEREAS, Illinois newspapers have worked with their | ||||||
18 | communities to locate 100 of the missing
photos; 45 counties in | ||||||
19 | Illinois are home to the remaining 479 soldiers without photos; | ||||||
20 | therefore, be it
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1 | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE | ||||||
2 | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we | ||||||
3 | urge Illinois communities to become
involved in the Vietnam | ||||||
4 | Veterans Memorial Foundation's "Wall of Faces" project to help | ||||||
5 | locate pictures
of soldiers whose photos were lost and to | ||||||
6 | further preserve the legacy of those who sacrificed all in the
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7 | Vietnam War.
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