First Regular Session
Seventy-fourth General Assembly
STATE OF COLORADO
REVISED
LLS NO. R23-0830.01 Jessica Chapman x4636
HJR23-1013
House Committees Senate Committees
HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 23-1013
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ONCERNING THE RECOGNITION AND REMEMBRANCE OF MILITARY101
VETERANS IN COLORADO WHO SERVED IN THE VIETNAM WAR.102
WHEREAS, United States military involvement in the Vietnam1
War began in South Vietnam in 1964 and continued throughout the2
region until 1975, involving North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong3
guerrilla forces in armed conflict with United States Armed Forces and4
the Army of the Republic of Vietnam; and5
WHEREAS, During this period, more than 2.7 million American6
soldiers, both volunteers and draftees, served tours of duty in Vietnam,7
with a total of more than 9 million active duty military personnel, in what8
was an extremely long, difficult, and complex war; and9
WHEREAS, More than 58,220 members of the United States10
SENATE
Final Reading
February 13, 2023
HOUSE
Final Reading
February 10, 2023
HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
Armagost and Marshall, Amabile, Bacon, Bird, Bockenfeld, Boesenecker, Bottoms,
Bradfield, Bradley, Brown, Catlin, Daugherty, DeGraaf, deGruy Kennedy, Dickson, Duran,
English, Evans, Frizell, Froelich, Garcia, Hamrick, Hartsook, Holtorf, Jodeh, Joseph, Kipp,
Lieder, Lindsay, Lindstedt, Luck, Lukens, Lynch, Mabrey, Martinez, Mauro, McCluskie,
McCormick, McLachlan, Michaelson Jenet, Ortiz, Parenti, Pugliese, Ricks, Sharbini, Sirota,
Snyder, Soper, Story, Taggart, Titone, Valdez, Vigil, Weinberg, Weissman, Willford, Wilson,
Woodrow, Young
SENATE SPONSORSHIP
Sullivan and Rich, Baisley, Bridges, Buckner, Coleman, Cutter, Danielson, Exum,
Fenberg, Fields, Gardner, Ginal, Gonzales, Hansen, Hinrichsen, Jaquez Lewis, Kirkmeyer,
Kolker, Lundeen, Marchman, Moreno, Mullica, Pelton B., Pelton R., Priola, Roberts,
Rodriguez, Simpson, Smallwood, Van Winkle, Will, Winter F., Zenzinger
Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment.
Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing law.
Dashes through the words or numbers indicate deletions from existing law. Armed Forces, including 623 Coloradans, lost their lives in the Vietnam1
War, and more than 300,000 members of the United States Armed Forces2
were wounded; and3
WHEREAS, In addition, more than 1,500 members of the United4
States Armed Forces listed as prisoners of war (POWs) or missing in5
action in the Vietnam War remain unaccounted for, including 246
Coloradans; and7
WHEREAS, According to the U.S. Department of Veterans8
Affairs, more than 6 million veterans of the United States Armed Forces9
who served during the Vietnam era are still alive today, including, as of10
2020, more than 117,000 Coloradans; and11
WHEREAS, Formal acknowledgment of Vietnam War veterans12
is as important now as ever, not only for those veterans who served but13
for all citizens; bipartisan legislation signed in 2017 permanently14
enshrines March 29 as National Vietnam War Veterans Day; and15
WHEREAS, April 30, 2023, marks the 48th anniversary of the end16
of the Vietnam War; now, therefore,17
Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the18
Seventy-fourth General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate19
concurring herein:20
That we, the members of the Colorado General Assembly, hereby:21
(1) Honor the service and sacrifices of Colorado military veterans22
who served in the Vietnam War alongside South Vietnamese soldiers;23
(2) Recognize the challenges faced by many of these veterans,24
both while serving in the Vietnam War and upon returning home;25
(3) Express our appreciation for the fortitude of Colorado26
veterans; their activism on behalf of fellow veterans; their patriotism;27
their accomplishments and contributions; and the leadership they have28
shown their families, community organizations, and the state; and29
(4) Encourage all Coloradans to remember the sacrifices made by30
Vietnam War veterans.31
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to the Colorado Department of Military and Veterans Affairs; the United2
Veterans Coalition of Colorado; Project Sanctuary; the President of the3
United States Joseph R. Biden, Jr.; the honorable Jared Polis, Governor4
of Colorado; and the Colorado Congressional delegation.5
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