Senate Resolution 17 - Introduced

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  1  1                SENATE RESOLUTION NO.    
  1  2     BY  BEALL, APPEL, BARTZ, BEHN, BLACK, BOETTGER,
  1  3    BOLKCOM, COURTNEY, DANDEKAR, DANIELSON, DEARDEN,
  1  4        DOTZLER, DVORSKY, FEENSTRA, FRAISE, HAHN,
  1  5     HAMERLINCK, HANCOCK, HARTSUCH, HATCH, HECKROTH,
  1  6    HOGG, HORN, JOCHUM, KAPUCIAN, KETTERING, KIBBIE,
  1  7         KREIMAN, McCOY, McKINLEY, NOBLE, OLIVE,
  1  8      QUIRMBACH, RAGAN, REYNOLDS, RIELLY, SCHMITZ,
  1  9      SCHOENJAHN, SENG, SEYMOUR, SODDERS, STEWART,
  1 10           WARNSTADT, WIECK, WILHELM, and ZAUN
  1 11 A Resolution honoring Iowa's women military veterans.
  1 12    WHEREAS, since the Revolutionary War, over 2.5
  1 13 million women have served in the United States Armed
  1 14 Forces; and
  1 15    WHEREAS, during the Civil War, Spanish=American
  1 16 War, and World War I, while their husbands and fathers
  1 17 were in the Army, Iowa women ran the farms and the
  1 18 stores, sent food and medicine to wounded soldiers,
  1 19 and cared for wounded and sick soldiers; and
  1 20    WHEREAS, during the second World War, Fort Des
  1 21 Moines hosted the formation and first training center
  1 22 for the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, later renamed
  1 23 the Women's Army Corps, training 72,000 troops and
  1 24 commissioning the first female officers for noncombat
  1 25 duty between 1942 and 1945; and
  1 26    WHEREAS, Fort Des Moines produced 118 black female
  1 27 officers and 3,656 black enlisted women by war's end,
  1 28 representing 4 percent of all Women's Army Corps
  1 29 troops; and
  1 30    WHEREAS, the women who trained at Fort Des Moines
  2  1 were the first women other than nurses to serve within
  2  2 the ranks of the United States Army; and
  2  3    WHEREAS, over 150,000 American women served in the
  2  4 Women's Army Corps during World War II, freeing
  2  5 250,000 male soldiers for combat duty in Europe and
  2  6 the South Pacific and helping in a large way to make
  2  7 the war effort successful; and
  2  8    WHEREAS, thousands of Iowa women were deployed
  2  9 during the Vietnam War and Operations Desert Shield
  2 10 and Desert Storm and served stateside in essential
  2 11 mission support roles; and
  2 12    WHEREAS, over 14,500 Iowa women continue to serve
  2 13 their country in ever increasing numbers; and
  2 14    WHEREAS, Iowa women have fulfilled the promise that
  2 15 began at Fort Des Moines by attaining high ranks in
  2 16 the military, including two Iowa women serving as
  2 17 Brigadier Generals, Janet Phipps and State
  2 18 Representative Jodi Tymeson; and
  2 19    WHEREAS, over 14,000 women veterans make Iowa their
  2 20 home today, and the Fort Des Moines Museum, which has
  2 21 been open for five years, preserves and tells the
  2 22 story of the women pioneers of Fort Des Moines; NOW
  2 23 THEREFORE,
  2 24    BE IT RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, That the Senate
  2 25 recognizes and honors the service and achievements of
  2 26 women veterans of Iowa, thanks them for their service
  2 27 to the United States of America and to Iowa, and
  2 28 encourages all Iowans to recognize the contributions
  2 29 of women, past and present, in the armed forces.
  2 30 LSB 2645SS 83
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