CC - 1975-18 - ProclamationOCLAMATIONIT
RESOLUTION NO. 75-18
JOINING IN PROCLAMATION OF SUPPORT
FOR NEW NATIONAL CEMETERY SITE AT MARCH AIR BASE
WHEREAS, the Veterans Administration of the United States has recognized the
need for a new national cemetery within the state of California to serve de-
ceased veterans of the nation's military forces, and
WHEREAS, the Veterans Administration has diligently reviewed nine possible
sites and reduced the choice to three: March Air Force Base near Riverside,
White Wolf Valley near Bakersfield, San Luis Reservoir near Los Banos, and
WHEREAS, the March Air Force Base site is located within one to two hours
of the Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside-San Bernardino, Ventura and San Diego
metropolitan areas wherein reside a significant majority of both veterans and
active duty personnel of the military forces and their families, and
WHEREAS, the March Air Force Base site is adjacent to a military install-
ation dedicated to the security of the nation since March 20, 1918, when named
to honor Second Lieutenant Peyton C. March, Jr., and
WHEREAS, March Air Force Base is identified with men who wrote their names
in the military history of the nation - Frederick Eglin, Hoyt S. Vandenberg,
Nathan F. Twining, Thomas S. Powers, Curtis E. LeMay, H. H. Arnold, Ira Eaker,
Emmett O'Donnell, Colin Kelly - and in so doing dedicated this ground to the
memory of the nation's veterans for all time, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED AND PROCLAIMED by the City Council
of the City of Ropemead State of California, in regular session
assembled on March 11, 1975, that support for March Air Force Base
site is appropriate and the people of this community and the state are urged to
harmoniously encourage the Veterans Administration in their selection of a new
national cemetery to honor the nation's military veterans.
[MAYOR OF/THE CI O 0 E AD