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106TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. CON. RES. 345

Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the need for cataloging

and maintaining public memorials commemorating military conflicts of

the United States and the service of individuals in the Armed Forces.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

JUNE 6, 2000

Mr. ROGAN submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was referred

to the Committee on Resources

CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

Expressing the sense of the Congress regarding the need

for cataloging and maintaining public memorials commemorating military conflicts of the United States and

the service of individuals in the Armed Forces.

Whereas there are many thousands of public memorials scattered throughout the United States and abroad that commemorate military conflicts of the United States and the

service of individuals in the Armed Forces;

Whereas these memorials have never been comprehensively

cataloged;

Whereas many of these memorials suffer from neglect and

disrepair, and many have been relocated or stored in facilities where they are unavailable to the public and subject to further neglect and damage;
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Whereas there exists a need to collect and centralize information regarding the location, status, and description of

these memorials;

Whereas the Federal Government maintains information on

memorials only if they are Federally funded; and

Whereas Remembering Veterans Who Earned Their Stripes

(a nonprofit corporation established as RVETS, Inc.

under the laws of the State of Nevada) has undertaken

a self-funded program to catalogue the memorials located

in the United States that commemorate military conflicts

of the United States and the service of individuals in the

Armed Forces, and has already obtained information on

more than 7000 memorials in 50 States: Now, therefore,

be it

1 Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate

2 concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that—

3 (1) the people of the United States owe a debt

4 of gratitude to veterans for their sacrifices in de5 fending the Nation during times of war and peace;

6 (2) public memorials that commemorate mili7 tary conflicts of the United States and the service of

8 individuals in the Armed Forces should be main9 tained in good condition, so that future generations

10 may know of the burdens borne by these individuals;

11 (3) Federal, State, and local agencies respon12 sible for the construction and maintenance of these

13 memorials should cooperate in cataloging these me-
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1 morials and providing the resulting information to

2 the Department of the Interior; and

3 (4) the Secretary of the Interior, acting through

4 the Director of the National Park Service, should—

5 (A) collect and maintain information on

6 public memorials that commemorate military

7 conflicts of the United States and the service of

8 individuals in the Armed Forces;

9 (B) coordinate efforts at collecting and

10 maintaining this information with similar ef11 forts by other entities, such as Remembering

12 Veterans Who Earned Their Stripes (a non13 profit corporation established as RVETS, Inc.

14 under the laws of the State of Nevada); and

15 (C) make this information available to the

16 public.

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