| 1 | 1 | | First Regular Session |
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| 2 | 2 | | Seventy-fifth General Assembly |
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| 3 | 3 | | STATE OF COLORADO |
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| 4 | 4 | | INTRODUCED |
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| 7 | 7 | | LLS NO. R25-1018.01 Jessica Chapman x4636 |
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| 8 | 8 | | HJR25-1029 |
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| 9 | 9 | | House Committees Senate Committees |
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| 10 | 10 | | State, Civic, Military, & Veterans Affairs |
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| 11 | 11 | | HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 25-1029 |
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| 12 | 12 | | C |
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| 13 | 13 | | ONCERNING THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 'S ERASURE OF UNITED101 |
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| 14 | 14 | | S |
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| 15 | 15 | | TATES' MILITARY HISTORY.102 |
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| 16 | 16 | | WHEREAS, The federal government is currently engaging in an1 |
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| 17 | 17 | | ideological erasure against institutions, people, photos, websites, public2 |
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| 18 | 18 | | information, or acknowledgments that could conceivably be considered3 |
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| 19 | 19 | | supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion; and4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | WHEREAS, These attacks have extended into the U.S.5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | Department of Defense, and have led to the removal, suppression, and6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | erasure of key facets of America's proud military history; and7 |
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| 23 | 23 | | WHEREAS, These efforts at suppression and erasure have led to8 |
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| 24 | 24 | | removing lessons from Basic Airman training regarding the Tuskegee9 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Airmen, removal of informational websites regarding the Japanese10 |
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| 26 | 26 | | HOUSE SPONSORSHIP |
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| 27 | 27 | | Marshall and Rutinel, |
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| 28 | 28 | | SENATE SPONSORSHIP |
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| 29 | 29 | | Hinrichsen and Weissman, Snyder |
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| 30 | 30 | | Shading denotes HOUSE amendment. Double underlining denotes SENATE amendment. |
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| 31 | 31 | | Capital letters or bold & italic numbers indicate new material to be added to existing law. |
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| 32 | 32 | | Dashes through the words or numbers indicate deletions from existing law. American 442nd Infantry Regiment and African American Medal of1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | Honor recipients, targeting for deletion photos of the Enola Gay aircraft,2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | and the removal of a webpage dedicated to the memory of Ira Hayes, a3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | member of the Pima Nation and one of the most well-known and tragic4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | individuals who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima; and5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | WHEREAS, America has a long, storied history of all Americans,6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | new and old, in their full diversity, equitably including themselves in7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | contribution to the common defense, from the Marquis de Lafayette,8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | Alexander Hamilton, Baron Friedrich von Steuben, and John Paul Jones;9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | to the 54th Massachusetts, Harlem Hellfighters, and Buffalo Soldier10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | Regiments; from the women of WAVES and WACS to Navajo Code11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | Talkers; to Dr. Mary Walker, Pvt. Henry Johnson, Pvt. Marcelino Serna,12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | Lt. Col. Charles Rogers, and Captain Humayun Khan; and13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | WHEREAS, Many of these stories of military honor and valor14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | have Colorado connections, from Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose, Pvt. George15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | Sakato, and Pvt. Joe Martinez, to the four Pueblo-native Congressional16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | Medal of Honor recipients leading to the City of Pueblo's designation as17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | "The Home of Heroes"; and18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | WHEREAS, Combat and war should never be glorified, but in19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | very few fulcrums do the bonds of brotherhood show themselves across20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | the myriad divisions mankind places between themselves; and21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | WHEREAS, The promise to our forebears as heirs to this shared22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | history is that: "From this day to the ending of the world, but we in it shall23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | be remembered"; now, therefore,24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the Seventy-fifth25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | General Assembly of the State of Colorado, the Senate concurring herein:26 |
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| 58 | 58 | | (1) That we, the Seventy-fifth Colorado General Assembly,27 |
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| 59 | 59 | | hereby condemn the removal, suppression, and attempts to erase our28 |
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| 60 | 60 | | shared American military history; and29 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (2) That we, the Seventy-fifth Colorado General Assembly,30 |
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| 62 | 62 | | demand, as heirs of these storied units, traditions, and people, that our31 |
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| 63 | 63 | | American military history not be removed, suppressed, or erased for32 |
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| 64 | 64 | | ourselves and future generations of Americans.33 |
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| 65 | 65 | | Be It Further Resolved, That copies of this Joint Resolution be sent34 |
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| 66 | 66 | | HJR25-1029 |
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| 67 | 67 | | -2- to the President of the United States, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, the1 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Governor of Colorado, and the members of Colorado's congressional2 |
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| 69 | 69 | | delegation.3 |
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| 70 | 70 | | HJR25-1029 |
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| 71 | 71 | | -3- |
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