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| 3 | 3 | | 2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE |
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| 4 | 4 | | 2023 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTIO N 37 |
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| 5 | 5 | | May 2, 2023 - Introduced by Senators JAMES, CABRAL-GUEVARA, FELZKOWSKI, NASS |
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| 6 | 6 | | and MARKLEIN, cosponsored by Representatives TITTL, ARMSTRONG, BINSFELD, |
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| 7 | 7 | | DITTRICH, EDMING, GUNDRUM, S. JOHNSON, KITCHENS, MAGNAFICI, MOSES, |
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| 8 | 8 | | MURPHY, MURSAU, NEDWESKI, NOVAK, O'CONNOR, PENTERMAN, PETRYK, |
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| 9 | 9 | | RETTINGER, ROZAR and STEFFEN. Referred to Committee on Senate |
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| 10 | 10 | | Organization. |
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| 11 | 11 | | Relating to: proclaiming June 12, 2023, as Ronald Reagan Freedom Day in |
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| 12 | 12 | | Wisconsin. |
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| 13 | 13 | | Whereas, on June 12, 1987, the United States had been in a cold war with the |
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| 14 | 14 | | Soviet Union for more than 40 years, and President Ronald Reagan was delivering |
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| 15 | 15 | | a speech at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin; and |
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| 16 | 16 | | Whereas, during that 40-year period of Soviet power, many people faced |
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| 17 | 17 | | persecution and fled to the western European nations and beyond in order to escape |
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| 18 | 18 | | tyranny and find freedom; and |
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| 19 | 19 | | Whereas, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic |
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| 20 | 20 | | built a wall of barbed wire and concrete separating East and West Berlin, primarily |
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| 21 | 21 | | to stem mass defections from East to West; and |
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| 22 | 22 | | Whereas, the wall made it very difficult for people to escape Soviet Communism |
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| 23 | 23 | | in Germany and unite with their families in West Berlin, evidenced by at least 171 |
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| 24 | 24 | | people dying trying to get over, under, or around the wall; and |
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| 42 | 42 | | Whereas, during his speech, Ronald Reagan remarked to the Soviet president, |
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| 43 | 43 | | “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate; Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall”; and |
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| 44 | 44 | | Whereas, on November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist |
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| 45 | 45 | | Party announced that citizens of the German Democratic Republic could cross the |
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| 46 | 46 | | border whenever they pleased, ecstatic crowds swarmed the wall—some crossing |
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| 47 | 47 | | freely into West Berlin, while others hammered and chipped away at the wall itself; |
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| 48 | 48 | | and |
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| 49 | 49 | | Whereas, more than two million people from East Berlin visited West Berlin |
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| 50 | 50 | | that weekend, participating in a celebration that was, as one journalist described it, |
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| 51 | 51 | | “the greatest street party in the history of the world”; now, therefore, be it |
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| 52 | 52 | | Resolved by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the members of the |
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| 53 | 53 | | Wisconsin Legislature hereby commemorate that historic speech and declare June |
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| 54 | 54 | | 12, 2023, as Ronald Reagan Freedom Day in Wisconsin. |
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