[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 140 (Thursday, October 8, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1948]
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                        POW/MIA RECOGNITION DAY

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                            HON. JIM GIBBONS

                               of nevada

                    in the house of representatives

                       Wednesday, October 7, 1998

  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, I insert for the Record a proclamation 
designating September 18, 1998 as POW/MIA Recognition Day in the State 
of Nevada. The full accounting of all of our servicemen and women 
abroad must remain of paramount importance to the Nation.

       Whereas, today there are 2,118 Americans still missing and 
     unaccounted for from Southeast Asia, including 3 from the 
     State of Nevada, and their families, friends and fellow 
     veterans still endure uncertainty concerning their fate; and
       Whereas, we as Americans believe that freedom is precious 
     because it has been won and preserved for all at a very great 
     cost; and
       Whereas, few Americans can more fully appreciate the value 
     of liberty and self-government than those Americans who were 
     interned in enemy prison camps as POWs and those who remain 
     missing in action; and
       Whereas, the courage, commitment and devotion to duty 
     demonstrated by those servicemen and women who risked their 
     lives for our sake has moved the hearts of all Nevadans; and
       Whereas, their dignity, faith and valor reminds us of the 
     allegiance we owe to our nation and its defenders as well as 
     the compassion we owe to those families of the MIAs who daily 
     demonstrate heroic courage and fortitude in the face of 
     uncertainty: now, therefore, I, Bob Miller, Governor of the 
     State of Nevada, do hereby proclaim September 19, 1997, as 
     POW/MIA Recognition Day.

     

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