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INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVE LISA L. LUTZ
44th LEGISLATURE - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - FIRST
SESSION, 1999
HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 48
A JOINT MEMORIAL
REQUESTING THE CITY OF ALBUQUERQUE TO HONOR THE VETERANS
OF BATAAN BY PLACING A MONUMENT IN AND MAINTAINING
BATAAN PARK IN DIGNITY.
WHEREAS, the measure of heroism is quantified by the
standards of honor, loyalty, service, sacrifice, valor,
and most of all, humility, and these qualities define
what a hero is; and
WHEREAS, the men and women of the great state of New
Mexico have, in every war, personified the meaning of
the word hero, and the men of the 200th coast artillery,
the New Mexico National Guard, put their personal stamp
on and defined the word hero during their defense of the
Philippines, during the Bataan Death March and during
their imprisonment for three and one-half years and
their abuse as slave labor; and
WHEREAS, the inevitability of time has left few of these
men to walk among us now; and
WHEREAS, the defense of Bataan and Corregidor was one of
our nation's darkest and brightest hours, and these men
now ask that this memory be preserved;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the legislature of the
state of New Mexico that the preservation of the record
and these great deeds be remembered by the construction
of a monument in Bataan Park and that the city of
Albuquerque be requested to maintain and manage the
Bataan Park in dignity and honor; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a copy of this memorial be
transmitted to the mayor of Albuquerque.
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