Bill Text: TX HR933 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
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Bill Title: Commemorating the Nueces County observance of the centennial of the United States' entry into World War I.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-28 - Reported enrolled [HR933 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR933-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Commemorating the Nueces County observance of the centennial of the United States' entry into World War I.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-03-28 - Reported enrolled [HR933 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HR933-Introduced.html
85R17572 BPG-D | ||
By: Herrero | H.R. No. 933 |
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WHEREAS, Many residents of Nueces County are gathering on | ||
April 6, 2017, to mark the 100th anniversary of the United States' | ||
entry into World War I; and | ||
WHEREAS, In early 1917, Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, | ||
and Japan, known as the Allied Powers, were engaged in the Great War | ||
against Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire, or the | ||
Central Powers; German submarines sank several U.S. ships in | ||
February and March, killing numerous seamen and citizens, and | ||
British naval intelligence revealed that Germany was attempting to | ||
draw Mexico into an alliance against the United States; and | ||
WHEREAS, President Woodrow Wilson appeared before a joint | ||
session of Congress on April 2, 1917, to request a declaration of | ||
war against Germany; two days later, the U.S. Senate voted in | ||
support, and with the concurrence of the House of Representatives | ||
on April 6, the U.S. joined forces with the Allies; and | ||
WHEREAS, In 1918, the infusion of American troops and | ||
resources into the western front turned the tide definitively in | ||
favor of the Allies, and Germany signed an armistice agreement on | ||
November 11; by then, more than 116,000 members of the U.S. military | ||
had perished and a further 200,000 had been wounded; and | ||
WHEREAS, During the war, Nueces County was the location of | ||
Camp Scurry, a 200-acre training base for the 4th Field Artillery | ||
Regiment and the 5th Engineer Battalion; the centennial observance | ||
in the county is sponsored by the Nueces County Historical | ||
Commission, the Nueces County Historical Society, the Corpus | ||
Christi Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American | ||
Revolution, the Corpus Christi Chapter of the United Daughters of | ||
the Confederacy, and Old Bayview Chapter No. 479 of the National | ||
Society United States Daughters of 1812; and | ||
WHEREAS, World War I marked the beginning of an era of seismic | ||
change around the globe, and this milestone anniversary provides an | ||
opportunity to reflect on the patriotism and sacrifice that are | ||
synonymous with that cataclysmic rupture, as well as on the causes | ||
that precipitated the conflict and the consequences that flowed | ||
from it; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 85th Texas | ||
Legislature hereby commemorate the Nueces County observance of the | ||
centennial of the United States' entry into World War I and extend | ||
to all those participating sincere best wishes for a memorable and | ||
meaningful event. |