Senate Resolution 210 Printer's Number 1218
PENNSYLVANIA, November 9 - PRINTER'S NO. 1218
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
210
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY ROBINSON, CORMAN, DUSH, BROOKS, BROWNE, YAW,
FONTANA, MARTIN, LANGERHOLC, PHILLIPS-HILL, GEBHARD, SCHWANK,
HUGHES, LAUGHLIN, SANTARSIERO, COMITTA, BARTOLOTTA, ARGALL,
VOGEL, J. WARD, BREWSTER AND PITTMAN, NOVEMBER 9, 2021
REFERRED TO RULES AND EXECUTIVE NOMINATIONS, NOVEMBER 9, 2021
A RESOLUTION
Honoring all Pennsylvania veterans who served during war and
peace on the occasion of Veterans Day, November 11, 2021.
WHEREAS, In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day in
the eleventh month, the world rejoiced and celebrated because,
after four years of bitter war, an armistice was signed that
declared the "war to end all wars" over; and
WHEREAS, November 11 was set aside as Armistice Day in the
United States to remember the sacrifices men and women made
during World War I in order to ensure a lasting peace; and
WHEREAS, On Armistice Day, soldiers who survived the war
marched in parades through their hometowns, and politicians,
public officials and veteran officers gave speeches and held
ceremonies of thanks for the peace they had won; and
WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States voted Armistice
Day a legal holiday in 1938, but Americans realized that the
previous war would not be the last one; and
WHEREAS, World War II began the following year, and nations
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