Title: Expressing support for the designation of November 9, 2022, as "Gold Star Father's Day".
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
This resolution expresses support for the designation of Gold Star Father's Day.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1190 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1190

 Expressing support for the designation of November 9, 2022, as ``Gold 
                          Star Father's Day''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 21, 2022

  Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. Thompson of 
    Mississippi, Ms. Moore of Wisconsin, Mr. Bishop of Georgia, Mr. 
McGovern, Ms. Norton, Ms. Tlaib, Ms. Dean, Mr. David Scott of Georgia, 
   Mr. Rush, Ms. Kelly of Illinois, Mr. Loudermilk, Mrs. McBath, Mr. 
 Suozzi, Mr. Costa, Mrs. Dingell, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mrs. Lee of 
    Nevada, Ms. Strickland, Mr. Sires, Ms. Williams of Georgia, Ms. 
  Bourdeaux, Mr. Clyde, Ms. Plaskett, Mr. Garbarino, Mr. Peters, Ms. 
  Wild, Mr. Carson, Mr. San Nicolas, Ms. Lee of California, and Mrs. 
 Hayes) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing support for the designation of November 9, 2022, as ``Gold 
                          Star Father's Day''.

Whereas thousands of men and women have laid down their lives to defend the 
        liberty and soul of our Nation, and families of fallen members of the 
        Armed Forces have lost their loved ones in service to our country;
Whereas families of members of the Armed Forces demonstrate a different kind of 
        heroism, supporting children and family members while loved ones are 
        deployed, sacrificing holidays with members who are serving overseas, 
        and facing each day knowing their loved one might be in danger and could 
        never return home;
Whereas, before the Iraq war, the United States had lost over 1,300,000 members 
        of the Armed Forces during wartime, and, since October 2001, over 4,400 
        members of the Armed Forces have lost their lives serving this country, 
        leaving thousands of family members behind;
Whereas, in 2015, the Gold Star Fathers Act was signed into law to ensure Gold 
        Star Fathers were eligible for the same benefits guaranteed to mothers 
        of fallen or permanently disabled members of the Armed Forces, honoring 
        their sacrifice and loss, but this legislation did not designate a Gold 
        Star Father's Day;
Whereas, in 1936, Congress designated the last Sunday in September as Gold Star 
        Mother's Day;
Whereas President Donald Trump designated September 24, 2017, as Gold Star 
        Mother's and Family Day, and President Barack Obama proclaimed September 
        25, 2016, as Gold Star Mother's and Family Day;
Whereas, on March 24, 2017, the Georgia House of Representatives adopted House 
        Resolution 723, recognizing November 9 as Georgia Gold Star Father's 
        Day;
Whereas Father's Day honors and celebrates fatherhood and the unique bonds 
        between a father and his children; and
Whereas the goals of ``Gold Star Father's Day'' on November 9 are to--

    (1) honor and celebrate fathers who have lost children in service to 
the United States;

    (2) honor fathers of fallen members of the Armed Forces and recognize 
that they, as parents, have experienced extraordinary and unimaginable 
loss;

    (3) recognize the need to support families of members of the Armed 
Forces throughout the United States; and

    (4) honor the courage of fathers who understand the true price of 
freedom and now face Father's Day without their child or children: Now, 
therefore, be it

    Resolved, That the House of Representatives supports the 
designation of ``Gold Star Father's Day''.
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