The bill honors and preserves the history of specific women wartime volunteers, providing recognition and public awareness at modest taxpayer cost but risking perceptions of unfair exclusion of other support roles.
Women who served as Donut Dollies and in the SRAO would receive formal recognition for their wartime volunteer service, validating their contributions and potentially improving veterans' visibility and benefits access.
The measure would raise public awareness and help preserve the history of these volunteer roles for families and communities, ensuring their stories are recorded and remembered.
Recognizing specific volunteer programs could be perceived as excluding other informal or similar wartime support roles, creating feelings of unfairness among other veterans and volunteers.
There would be modest taxpayer-funded administrative or commemorative costs associated with implementing official recognition.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Expresses formal recognition and honor for women volunteers who served refreshments, morale, and recreational support to U.S. servicemembers in WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Introduced April 29, 2026 by Thomas Roland Tillis · Last progress April 29, 2026
Designates formal recognition and honor for women volunteers who served refreshments, morale, and recreational support to U.S. servicemembers in multiple conflicts. It records historical findings about Salvation Army “Doughnut Lassies” (1917), Red Cross and clubmobile “Donut Dollies” in World War II and Korea, and the Supplemental Recreation Activities Overseas (SRAO) program in Vietnam (1965–1972), including the scale of service, risks faced, and casualties, and concludes their service merits official recognition.