North Carolina Legislative Update May 2009

jarhead@mcl260.org — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:32:00 GMT

Bills of Interest to Marine Crops Veterans in the North Carolina General Assembly 2009-2010

Click on one of the bills listed below to read the history and status.

H366, Edition 1
Locate Veterans Affairs Nursing Home at WCU.

S298, Edition 1
(= H1143) Military Wartime Veteran Special Plate Change.

H1639, Edition 1
Expand Disabled Vet Homestead Exclusion.

S1102, Filed
Honor Veterans. ( A joint resolution to Honor Marine Medal of Honor Recipient Jack Lucas ) Jack was the Youngest recipient of the Medal of Honor in the 20th Century)

H1021, Edition 3
Designate U.S. Highway 17 Scenic Byway. (AN ACT TO DESIGNATE A PORTION OF U.S. HIGHWAY 17 AND U.S. HIGHWAY 70
AS "THE U.S. MARINE CORPS PARKWAY: HOME OF THE CAROLINA MARINES
SINCE 1941.")

H562, Edition 1
Honor Jack Lucas.

H1648, Edition 1 County Veterans Svc. Officers Assoc./Funds.

H912, Edition 3
Encourage Use of Military Veteran Contractors.

S275, Edition 1
NC Korean War Veterans Memorial Park Funds.

H1573, Edition 2
Help Homeless Veterans Receive Benefits.

S264, Edition 1
Disabled Veterans Free at State Parks.

H1009, Edition 3
End DOA Supervision of Local Veterans Service.

S177, Edition 1 (= H594)
Increase Disabled Vet Property Tax Exclusion.

S264, Edition 1
Disabled Veterans Free at State Parks.

H572, Edition 2
Western Region Veterans Home/Black Mtn.

S247, Edition 1
Purple Heart Motorcycle Special Plate.

H1533, Edition 1
No Tuition Surcharge/Military or Disability.

S213, Edition 1 (= H70)
Marine Corps League/150 Applications to Issue.

H301, Edition 1
Military Personnel/Free Admission to Museums.

H15, Edition 1
Military Family Assistance Centers/Funds.

H1652, Edition 2
Honoring Fallen Soldiers.

H1366, Edition 1 (= S973)
Create Dept. of Military & Veterans Affairs.

Why the Gadsden Flag?

jarhead@mcl260.org — Tue, 19 May 2009 03:21:00 GMT

What's particularly interesting about the Gadsden Flag for us is that some of the Marines that enlisted in that month in Philadelphia, November 1775, were carrying drums painted yellow, emblazoned with a fierce rattlesnake, coiled and ready to strike, with thirteen rattles, and sporting the motto "Don't Tread on Me." The Flag became a symbol for American Independence.

In December 1775, "An American Guesser" anonymously wrote to the Pennsylvania Journal:

"I observed on one of the drums belonging to the Marines now raising, there was painted a Rattle-Snake, with this modest motto under it, 'Don't tread on me.' As I know it is the custom to have some device on the arms of every country, I supposed this may have been intended for the arms of America."

Many scholars now agree that this "American Guesser" was Benjamin Franklin.

What's this got to do with legislative updates? Nothing except it was a symbol of hope for our Country in the early days while the legislature was developing and then there's the Marines.

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North Carolina Legislative Update May 2009

Why the Gadsden Flag?