[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 1563]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 LOWER BUCKS COUNTY DAV CHAPTER #117-PA CELEBRATES ITS 50TH ANNIVERSARY

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                        HON. JAMES C. GREENWOOD

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, February 10, 2004

  Mr. GREENWOOD. Mr. Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to 
commend the Lower Bucks County Disabled American Veterans Chapter #117-
PA, an organization that will be celebrating its 50th anniversary on 
February 15, 2004.
  Lower Bucks County DAV Chapter #117 shares a proud history with one 
of the Nation's oldest and most important housing developments. In 
1951, developer William Levitt first unveiled the three styles of homes 
that would eventually populate what would later be known as Levittown, 
a planned housing development constructed to meet the needs of the 
employees of the Rohm and Haas Chemical plant in Bristol, 3M in Bristol 
Township, and the new steel-making facility for U.S. Steel-Fairless 
Works in Falls Township. Many veterans of World War II and the Korean 
War purchased homes in this community under the GI Bill's mortgage 
package. As a result, numerous Veterans of Foreign Wars and American 
Legion posts were established in the area to meet the needs of the 
local veteran population.
  Although differing in their individual mission statements, all these 
groups had one common denominator: war-inflicted injuries. As a means 
of combating some of the myths associated with conflict-related 
disabilities, a small group of World War II and Korean War veterans 
petitioned the National Disabled Americans for a charter. On October 
21, 1953, Lower Bucks County DAV Chapter #117-PA was established; and 
over the years, its members have shown that those injured in battle can 
become indispensable members of society through their activities within 
the community.
  Throughout the past 50 years, Lower Bucks County DAV Chapter #117's 
leadership and its members have never failed to remember their primary 
objective: to come to the aid of veterans and to be an active service 
organization within the community it serves. I commend DAV Chapter #117 
for its continued leadership, and I wish it all the best as it enters 
its next 50 years of service.

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