Designating November 9th of each year as "Gold Star Father's Day".

Bill: 118-hjres-65
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Johnson, Henry C. "Hank," Jr. [D-GA-4]
Introduced: 2023-05-25
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action: action_date: 2023-05-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability.

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-05-25
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This joint resolution expresses support for the designation of Gold Star Father's Day.</p>

tv_txt: IA 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. J. RES. 65 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 25, 2023 Mr. Johnson of Georgia (for himself and Mr. Ferguson ) submitted the following joint resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability JOINT RESOLUTION Designating November 9th of each year 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 Joseph R. Biden, Jr. designated September 25, 2022, as Gold Star Mother’s and Family Day, 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

That Congress supports the designation of Gold Star Father’s Day .