HR 9 — Encouraging the United States Congress to pass legislation giving full military burial rights to Hmong veterans of the Vietnam War.

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HOUSE00Enrolled RESOLUTIONHR NO.9 01 Encouraging the United States Congress to pass legislation giving full military burial rights to 02 Hmong veterans of the Vietnam War.

903 am_______________ 0104 EncouragingBE theIT UnitedRESOLVED StatesBY CongressTHE toHOUSE passOF legislationREPRESENTATIVES: giving full military burial 02 rights to Hmong veterans of the Vietnam War.

0305 BEWHEREAS, ITbeginning RESOLVEDin BY1960, THEthe HOUSEUnited OFStates REPRESENTATIVES:Central Intelligence Agency 06 recruited thousands of Hmong people to fight against the Communist Pathet Lao and North 07 Vietnamese Army regulars in Laos;

04and 08 WHEREAS, beginning in 1960,July the1961, UnitedBrigadier StatesGeneral CentralEdward IntelligenceG. Agency 05 recruited thousands of Hmong people to fight against the Communist Pathet Lao and North 06 Vietnamese Army regulars in Laos;

andLansdale 07wrote WHEREAS, in Julya 1961,memo Brigadierto 09 General EdwardMaxwell G.D.

LansdaleTaylor wrotethat inabout a9,000 memoHmong totribesmen 08had Generalbeen Maxwellequipped D.for guerilla 10 operations and these operations were being conducted with considerable effectiveness in 11 Communist-dominated territory in Laos;

Taylorand that12 aboutWHEREAS 9,000as Hmongmany tribesmenas had100,000 beenHmong equippedsoldiers forwere guerillarecruited 09 operations and thesetrained operationsas were13 beingSpecial conductedGuerrilla withUnits considerableto effectivenessengage inthe 10North Communist-dominatedVietnamese territoryArmy; in Laos;

and 1114 WHEREAS asthe manyUnited asStates 100,000relied heavily on the Hmong soldiersSpecial wereGuerrilla recruitedUnits, 15 although outnumbered by enemy forces, to intercept and trainedprevent asthe 12flow Specialof Guerrillatroops Unitsand towar engage16 supplies along the NorthHo VietnameseChi Army;Minh Trail;

and 1317 WHEREAS the UnitedHmong Statessoldiers reliedconducted heavilytactical onguerrilla theactions, Hmongflew Specialthousands Guerrillaof Units,deadly 14combat althoughmissions outnumberedin bysupport enemyof forces,the toUnited interceptStates andarmed preventforces and the flowCentral of02 troopsIntelligence Agency, and warfought 15in suppliesconventional alongand theguerilla Hocombat Chiwith Minhan Trail;extremely high 03 number of casualties;

and 16 WHEREAS the Hmong soldiers conducted tactical guerrilla actions, flew thousands of deadly combat missions in support of the United States Armed Forces and the Central 02 Intelligence Agency, and fought in conventional and guerilla combat with an extremely high 03 number of casualties;

and 27 WHEREAS, on March 23, 2018, as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 28 2018 (P.L.

and the Honorable Lisa Murkowski and the 11 Honorable Dan Sullivan, U.S.