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.
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