PROCLAMATION: THE SPIRIT OF '45 WEEK

DUTCHESS COUNTY LEGISLATURE Prociamation: The Spirit of '45 Week The Dutchess County Legislature offers the following and moves its adoption: WHEREAS, all New Yorkers join in commemorating the 80* anniversary of the end of World War Il and the hard-fought victory of the Allied forces which silenced the global gunfire and ended the brutal fighting that wrought untold death, destruction, and devastation for nearly six years, and WHEREAS, for America, the war began with the attack on our Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941, declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as "a date which will live in infamy," and one that changed the course of our nation's history by catapulting our country into the conflict as it waged on for the third year, and HEREAS, millions perished during the war, including the victims of the Holocaust an thers who died at the cruel hands of dictatorship, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops, amon WHEREAS, on a national scale, a significant number of men and women who served in World War II were from New York State, with more than 37,000 of our service members killed or missing in action, and persevered, its flame kept alight by the liberty and patriotism that burned brightly within the therefore be it RESOLVED, that New Yorkers proudly join with our entire nation in celebrating "The Spirit of 45 Week" and, as we solemnly commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, we extend a sincere expression of gratitude and respect to our World War II Veterans, thanking all of them for their immense sacrifice and service carried out with the courage, principle, and honor that define their noble legacy, and, be it further RESOLVED, that the Dutchess County Legislature does hereby recognize August 10"- 16th 2025, as The Spirit of '45 Week in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Resolution No. 2025125 ss: This is to certify that 1, the undersigned Clesk of the legislarure of the County of Durchess, have compared the foreyoing resolution with the original ten m on fee me t f dr sa clerk, and which was adopted be sai egislature on the 11% dar of August 2025, and that the same is a true and corect teanscript of said original resolution and of the whole thereof IN WITNESS WIERON, 1 have hereunto set my hand and sea of said I coulature this 1 gugh Lager