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HRES 434 110th Congress House Armed Forces and National Security Army Blacks Colorado History Military promotions Minorities Women Women soldiers World War II

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Pasqualine J. Lawson of Denver, Colorado, an African American woman who valiantly served her country in the Army Air Corps during World War II and serving as a hospital neuropsychiatric team member, was unfairly passed over for promotion and should have held the grade of technical sergeant, rather than private first class, upon her discharge from the service on January 2, 1946.

Introduced: May 23, 2007 Introduced by: DeGette, Diana Democratic · Colorado See on congress.gov
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
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Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
May 23, 2007
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Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that Pasqualine J. Lawson, while in the Army Air Corps during World War II and serving as a hospital neuropsychiatric team member, was unfairly passed over for promotion and should have held the grade of technical sergeant, rather than private first class, upon her discharge on January 2, 1946.

What's happening now June 28, 2007

Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.

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