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State of West
Virginia
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State of West
Virginia
Governor
Bob Wise's
Web
Site
Issued
by
former
Governor Cecil
H. Underwood
West Virginia Official State
Web Site
Division of Veterans Affairs Web Site
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Whereas, |
for
generations,
West
Virginians
have
stepped
up,
fought
and
often
died
for
the
cause
of
freedom;
and, |
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Whereas, |
our
veterans
have
answered
the
call
to
fight
for
freedom
in
both
popular
and
unpopular
wars,
in
conflicts
where
the
side
of
freedom
clearly
prevailed
and
in
some
where
victory
was
denied;
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Whereas, |
while
expressing
our
collective
appreciation
for
all
veterans,
this
year
a
Vietnam
veteran
statue
at
the
West
Virginia
Veterans
Memorial
was
dedicated
to
those
who
fought
in
a
war
without
winners
in
a
conflict
overseas
that
stirred
conflicts
here
at
home;
and, |
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Whereas, |
while
veterans
of
previous
wars
were
welcomed
home
with
respect
and
adoration,
Vietnam
veterans
received
no
heroes'
welcome
-
yet
their
service
was
no
less
heroic,
their
actions
no
less.
courageous
and
their
wounds,
both
physical
and
emotional,
no
less
painful;
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Whereas, |
the
impact
of
that
war
continues
today
in
the
families
whose
sons
and
daughters
were
killed,
in
the
wounds
that
have
never
healed,
in
the
lives
that
were
changed
forever
and
for
the
prisoners
of
war
and
those
still
missing
in
action;
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Whereas, |
the
Kamwha
Valley
POW/NUA
Association
lists
22
citizens
from
West
Virginia
who
have
never
been
accounted
for
in
the
wake
of
Vietnam
-
their
families
remain
imprisoned
by
the
war; |
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Now,
Therefore,
Be
it
Resolved
that
I,
Cecil
H.
Underwood,
Governor
of
the
State
of
West
Virginia
do
hereby
proclaim
October
2000
as: |
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Vietnam
Veterans
Remembrance
Month
in
the
Mountain
State
and
encourage
all
citizens,
in
conjunction
with
the
Welcome
Home
Day
Foundation,
to
acknowledge
the
courage,
sacrifice,
honor
and
positive
achievements
of
our
nation's
Vietnam
veterans
and
their
families.
In
Witness
Whereof,
I
have
hereunto
set
my
hand
and
caused
the
Great
Seal
of
the
State
of
West
Virginia
to
be
affixed.
Done
at the
Capitol, City of
Charleston, State
of West Virginia,
this the
Twenty-fourth day
of March, in the
year of our Lord,
Two Thousand, and
in the One Hundred
Thirty-seventh
year of the State.
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Note:
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been removed and the exact wording of
the proclamation
is entered in HTML. The State seal and the Governor's
signature are
low-res scans of the original proclamation.
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