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HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 844 Offered February 1, 2001 Designating Gulf War Veterans Appreciation and Remembrance Week and requesting that the Virginia Department of Veterans Affairs determine the health status of Virginia's Persian Gulf War veterans. ---------- Patron-- Moran ---------- Unanimous consent to introduce ---------- Referred to Committee on Rules ----------

WHEREAS, between August 2, 1990, and February 28, 1991, American military forces were deployed to Southwest Asia and adjoining regions in defense of America's vital interests and those of its allies; and

WHEREAS, some 697,500 Americans served in the Kuwait Theater of Operations during this period, serving their country and humanity; and

WHEREAS, in the years since Operation Desert Storm, the economic and personal losses suffered by nearly 300,000 of these young Americans can only be imagined, with lives interrupted and inexorably altered by maladies collectively known as Gulf War Illnesses; and

WHEREAS, upon returning from the Persian Gulf, many of these young Americans have been unable to resume normal lives because of Gulf War Illnesses; and

WHEREAS, the veterans of the Persian Gulf War have earned and do deserve our esteem and gratitude and our acknowledgement that without their sacrifices, our lives would not be as they are today; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby designate the week of February 26, 2001, as Gulf War Veterans Appreciation and Remembrance Week in Virginia; and, be it

RESOLVED FURTHER, That the General Assembly request the Virginia Department of Veterans Affairs (i) to contract with an appropriate research entity in the Commonwealth to determine the health status of Virginia's more than 60,000 Persian Gulf War veterans, (ii) to complete the study no later than February 28, 2003, and (iii) to employ the methodology used by the Kansas State Veteran Commission in its study of Gulf War veterans, as published in the November 15, 2000, issue of the American Journal of Epidemiology.