{"id":6071,"date":"2023-02-18T15:17:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/?p=6071"},"modified":"2023-02-18T15:17:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T15:17:13","slug":"resolution-honoring-basque-wwii-veterans-on-the-house-floor-in-austin-tx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/2023\/02\/18\/resolution-honoring-basque-wwii-veterans-on-the-house-floor-in-austin-tx\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution Honoring Basque WWII Veterans on the House Floor in Austin, TX"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Press release by Sancho de Beurko Association (<a href=\"mailto:sanchobeurko@gmail.com\">sanchobeurko@gmail.com<\/a>)&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Immigrants In World War II: Basques In Texas [v1]\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XHzdg8nOB_o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Texas House of Representatives, namely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/house.texas.gov\/members\/member-page\/?district=103\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rafael Anchia<\/a>&nbsp;(HD 103), will present a resolution honoring Basque WWII Veterans on the House Floor at the State Capitol in Austin, TX on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.&nbsp;This will be the first resolution to honor Basque and Basque American WWII veterans in the history of the Nation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On March 2nd, the events will continue at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/library.austintexas.gov\/terrazas-branch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Terrazas Branch<\/a>&nbsp;of the Austin Public Library with the \u201cImmigrants in World War II. Basques in Texas,\u201d exhibition being displayed beginning at noon, followed by a panel discussion.&nbsp; The discussion, beginning at 1pm, chaired by Rep. Anchia will include panelists Dr. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Director of the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/voces.lib.utexas.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Voces Oral History Center<\/a>, University of Texas at Austin, and Dr. Pedro. J. Oiarzabal, leading researcher at the Sancho the Beurko\u2019s Association \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fightingbasques.net\/en-us\/Fighting-Basques\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Fighting Basques: Memory of WWII<\/a>.\u201d Dr. Rivas-Rodriguez will address the contributions of Latinos to WWII, while Dr. Oiarzabal will talk about the Basque WWII veterans in the US. Family members, relatives, and friends of the honored Basque veterans will attend the event and representing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nabasque.eus\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NABO<\/a>&nbsp;will be Marie Petracek, NABO Treasurer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event has been made possible by Rafael Anch\u00eda, Texas House of Representatives (HD 103), the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nabasque.eus\/oral_history.html\" target=\"_blank\">North American Basque Organizations<\/a>, Voces Oral History Center (University of Texas at Austin), the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fightingbasques.net\/en-us\/Sancho-de-Beurko\" target=\"_blank\">Sancho de Beurko Association<\/a>, and the&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.basqueeducational.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Basque Educational Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/331645687_1367837977338019_3759962306703391766_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/331645687_1367837977338019_3759962306703391766_n-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6072\" srcset=\"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/331645687_1367837977338019_3759962306703391766_n-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/331645687_1367837977338019_3759962306703391766_n-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/331645687_1367837977338019_3759962306703391766_n-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/331645687_1367837977338019_3759962306703391766_n-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/331645687_1367837977338019_3759962306703391766_n.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Press release by Sancho de Beurko Association (sanchobeurko@gmail.com)&nbsp; The Texas House of Representatives, namely&nbsp;Rafael Anchia&nbsp;(HD 103), will present a resolution honoring Basque WWII Veterans on the House Floor at the State Capitol in Austin, TX on Wednesday, March 1, 2023.&nbsp;This will be the first resolution to honor Basque and Basque American WWII veterans in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,1958],"tags":[3625,3622,3623,687,159,3620,1936,3621,3624],"class_list":["post-6071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diaspora","category-fighting-basques","tag-basque-educational-organization","tag-maggie-rivas-rodriguez","tag-marie-petracek","tag-north-american-basque-organizations","tag-pedro-oiarzabal","tag-rafael-anchia","tag-sancho-de-beurko-association","tag-texas","tag-voces-oral-history-center"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/331645687_1367837977338019_3759962306703391766_n.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sYNu-1zV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6071"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6081,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6071\/revisions\/6081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buber.net\/Basque\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}