Resolution 1991-58
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RESOLUTION NO. 91 - 58
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GILROY, CALIFORNIA, IN CONCERN FOR
POW/MIA MEMBERS.
WHEREAS, the United States is nearing the twentieth anniversary of the
end of the Vietnam War; and
WHEREAS, over 2200 members of the United States Armed Forces are still
unaccounted for; and
WHEREAS, animal bones and miscellaneous pieces of material sent back as
remains do not constitute adequate vertification of the fate of those Americans
designed as missing-in-action; and
WHEREAS, the Defense Intelligence Office, charged with the responsibility
of researching and verifying information on the missing americans, may not have
pursued such activities with the diligence expected by the American People; and
WHEREAS, the United States Senate may appoint a special committee to
study the entire issue of those Americans missing in Vietnam.
NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that the City of Gilroy and its citizens
do hereb)T:
Section 1. Support and encourage the United States Senate to form a
special committee to investigate the issue of American citizens missing in-Vietnam.
Section 2.
Request a complete accounting by the Defense Intelligence
Office to the families of those missing and the people of this nation as to the
actions and process used over the last twenty years to locate or verify the fate of
those Americans missing in Vietnam.
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Section 3. Request the President of the United States, George Bush, to
commit the necessary resources to ensure that all missing Americans are accounted
for and this unfinished business of the Vietnam War be once and for all laid to
rest.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 16th day of September, 1991, by the
following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: HALE, KLOECKER, MUSSALLEM, NELSON, VALDEZ and GAGE.
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: None
ABSENT:COUNCILMEMBER: HUGHAN.
APPROVED:
Mayor Protempore
ATTEST:
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hereby certify that the attached Resolution No. 91-58
I, SUSANNE E. STEINMETZ, City Clerk of the City of Gilroy, do
resolution, duly adopted by the Council of the City of Gilroy at a regular
is an original
meeting of said Council held on the 16th day of September
at which meeting a quorum was present.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
Official Seal of the City of Gilroy this 25th day of
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