HomeMy WebLinkAboutProclamation 84- Registration Awareness Month May 1984
PRO C LAM A T ION
REGISTRATION AWARENESS MONTH
WHEREAS, the continuation of the program for peacetime registration for
the Selective Service System contributes to National readiness
by reducing up to two months the time required for full defense
mobilization; and
WHEREAS, the registration program is an important signal to our allies
and to our potential adversaries of the seriousness of the United
States defense commitment at home and abroad; and
WHEREAS, over one million United States citizens have sacrificed their
lives in military service to protect the rights and freedoms of
all Americans and registration for Selective Service is an inte-
gral part of current preparedness to preserve these rights and
freedoms in the future; and
WHEREAS, Nationwide over 10 million men, representing 96 percent of poten-
tial registrants; and
WHEREAS, 42,700 young Montana men representing 98.4 percent have registered
with the Selective Service System since the resumption of registra-
tion and by so registering have enhanced United States National
defense preparedness; and
WHEREAS, the Selective Service System has been tasked with assisting in the
process of improving our readiness posture by calling upon eighteen
year old male citizens to identify themselves by simply registering
their name, address, date of birth, and social security number with
that System by spending five minutes at the Post Office within
thirty days of their eighteenth birthday; and
WHEREAS, there is no penalty for registering after the required time, but
there is a severe penalty for failure to register;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that I, Kenneth L. Weaver, Mayor of the City
of Bozeman, do hereby support continuation of registration with the Selective
Service and hereby declare May 1984 as
REGISTRATION AWARENESS MONTH
in the City of Bozeman and urge all the young men in our area to express pride
in their country and belief in its rights and freedoms by registering with the
Selective Service System in accordance with the Military Selective Service Act.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand
and caused the great seal of the City of Bozeman,
in the State of Montana, to be affixed at
SEAL Bozeman, Montana, this 30th day of April, in the
year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and
'- Eighty-Four.
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KE ETH L. WEAVER, Mayor --