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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR:	Aragon		DATE TYPED:	02/11/02		HB
SHORT TITLE:		Teach History of Bataan Death March				SB	SJM 82
					ANALYST:		Segura

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SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Joint Memorial 82 requests the inclusion in New Mexico history courses of the New Mexico artillery men who suffered and died on the infamous Bataan march of World War II.

Significant Issues

Thousands of the twelve thousand Americans who suffered and died on the Bataan death march were New Mexicans serving in the 200^th coast artillery and the 515^th anti-aircraft battalion of the New Mexico national guard.

Senate Joint Memorial 82 resolves that the state department of public education be requested to develop and require inclusion of a detailed chapter of the artillerymen of the 200^th coast artillery and the 515^th anti-aircraft battalions of the New Mexico national guard service in the Philippines in 1941 and 1942, including the infamous Bataan death march and the subsequent years of honorable service while imprisoned, in all New Mexico public school history courses.

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