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Indiana General Assembly | House of Representatives |
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| Indiana House Republican Caucus Room 401-6, Statehouse Indianapolis, IN 46204 |
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE |
Monday, January 26, 2007 |
House Republican Leader Bosma Co-Authors |
(STATEHOUSE) January 26, 2007 – House Bill 1059, co-authored by Brian Bosma (R-Indianapolis), passed out of the House of Representatives today 91-0. The bill requires that school corporations throughout the state include the study of the Holocaust as part of U.S. History curriculum. Holocaust studies would be incorporated as a state academic standard alongside language arts, mathematics, social studies and citizenship, sciences, fine arts and health education. The following statement is Leader Bosma’s testimony on the House floor, regarding today’s passage of House Bill 1059. “I think it’s wholly appropriate that we do this and I’ll tell you why. First of all I want to thank Representative Kersey for allowing me to be a co-author on this bill. It is appropriate that we’re doing this today because the eye witnesses in this chamber are gone. This session, for the first time since 1945, neither chamber has a person who was in combat in World War II. My dad was an eye witness in Dachau, Patton’s 7th Army, not the first one there, but there still working on cleaning up what the Nazi’s had done. Those eye witnesses, those World War II Veterans, those people who saw this horror with their own eyes and came back and told their families, and told the young people are gone, or nearly so. Some say this never happened. Our kids must know, so it never happens again.”
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