1-1 By: Crabb (Senate Sponsor - Lindsay) H.C.R. No. 119 1-2 (In the Senate - Received from the House April 9, 2001; 1-3 April 9, 2001, read first time and referred to Committee on Veteran 1-4 Affairs and Military Installations; April 24, 2001, reported 1-5 favorably by the following vote: Yeas 5, Nays 0; April 24, 2001, 1-6 sent to printer.) 1-7 HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 1-8 WHEREAS, Texas law, adopted in 1999, mandates the flying of 1-9 the POW/MIA flag at state office buildings, including the south 1-10 wing of the Capitol, on Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, 1-11 Independence Day, Veterans Day, and National POW/MIA Recognition 1-12 Day; and 1-13 WHEREAS, Nevertheless, it is appropriate that each and every 1-14 day Americans keep in mind the many United States military 1-15 personnel and civilians who remain missing in action from past 1-16 military conflicts, and from the Cold War, and who cannot truly be 1-17 said to have returned home until they have been found or their 1-18 remains have been identified; and 1-19 WHEREAS, The search for these Americans, victims of an 1-20 unknown fate, must not end; corresponding to the more than 90,000 1-21 who remain missing, there are today approximately 50,000 former 1-22 prisoners of war living among us whose return to this country was 1-23 the result of perseverance in the pursuit of their identification, 1-24 location, recovery, and safe return; and 1-25 WHEREAS, Even since the end of this country's military 1-26 participation in Southeast Asia there have been 593 Americans from 1-27 that conflict who have been repatriated or accounted for; since the 1-28 fall of South Vietnam, 58 firsthand sightings of Americans have 1-29 been reported, including 13 unresolved sightings involving 1-30 individuals in a captive or noncaptive environment and another 45 1-31 sightings, from wartime years, that were determined to correlate to 1-32 individuals listed as missing; and 1-33 WHEREAS, It is imperative that legislators of this state be 1-34 on continuing record in favor of investigatory and diplomatic 1-35 measures that move our country toward the fullest possible 1-36 accounting of the location or fate of American citizenry from 1-37 military conflicts and engagements; now, therefore, be it 1-38 RESOLVED, That the 77th Legislature of the State of Texas 1-39 hereby express its support for the continued search for missing 1-40 United States military personnel and civilians. 1-41 * * * * *