CERTIFICATION OF ENROLLMENT

                   SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8006

                        52nd Legislature

                      1991 Regular Session

Passed by the Senate April 22, 1991

  Yeas 45   Nays 0

President of the Senate

Passed by the House April 19, 1991

  Yeas 98   Nays 0

Speaker of the

       House of Representatives

CERTIFICATE

I, Gordon Golob, Secretary of the Senate of the State of Washington, do hereby certify that the attached is SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8006 as passed by the Senate and the House of Representatives on the dates hereon set forth.

Secretary

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                        Secretary of State   

                       State of Washington

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                            SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL 8006

                              AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE

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                     Passed Legislature - 1991 Regular Session

State of Washington              52nd Legislature             1991 Regular Session

By Senators Madsen, Bauer, A. Smith and McCaslin.

Read first time January 31, 1991.  Referred to Committee on Governmental Operations.Asking the department of defense to send our thanks to operation desert storm troops from Washington.

     TO THE HONORABLE RICHARD CHENEY, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, AND TO GENERAL COLIN POWELL, CHAIR OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, AND TO THE ARMED FORCES PARTICIPATING IN OPERATIONS DESERT SHIELD AND DESERT STORM:

     We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of the State of Washington, in legislative session assembled, respectfully represent and petition as follows:

     WHEREAS, The Nation of Kuwait has been since August of 1990, subject to the military oppression of an invading force, the military machine of the president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein; and

     WHEREAS, Economic sanctions, coupled with a deadline resolution of the United Nations, failed to convince Saddam Hussein to leave Kuwait; and

     WHEREAS, The President of the United States, resolved to act against Saddam Hussein and through the efforts of the United Nations, a  coalition of nearly thirty nations joined together to present a unified front to protest this invasion of one country by another; and       WHEREAS, The war inevitably involved half a million  men and women from across the nation, with eight thousand individuals coming from Washington state; and

     WHEREAS, Those men and women are our neighbors, their children play with our children, and they serve our communities through times of peace as well as in this time of war; and

     WHEREAS, The people of the state of Washington are united in their support for the men and women who serve in our armed forces and we wholeheartedly support their efforts on our behalf and on behalf of the world; and

     WHEREAS, We pray for the successful accomplishment of their mission and for their safe return;

     NOW, THEREFORE, Your Memorialists respectfully pray that the Department of Defense and the Joint Chiefs of Staff extend our appreciation to all our troops, especially those personnel representing the state of Washington in this serious time of crisis and courage.

     BE IT RESOLVED, That copies of this Memorial be immediately transmitted to the Honorable Richard Cheney, Secretary of Defense, and to General Colin Powell, Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and to Honorable Dan Quayle, President of the Senate, and to Honorable Tom Foley, Speaker of the House of Representatives.