Backup Documents 01/13/2009 Item # 4A
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PROCLAMA TION
WHEREAS, Dr. Seymour Taffet joined the military reserve while still a medical
student at the University of Michigan. His class was the first class that
was escalated to fulfill the Army's need for doctors; and.
WHEREAS, at graduation, Dr. Taffet was assigned to a special frontline military
attack unit that consisted of 500 highly-trained specialists, one battalion
surgeon, and 14 medics; and.
WHEREAS, this unit was under direct command of General Eisenhower during the entire
war, and Dr. Taffet was one of only six battle-front doctors in the
American Army. This special unit was the point of attack for every
important European battle of WWII including the Normandy Landing, all
the way to the Czech border by way of France, Belgium, Holland. and
Germany; and.
WHEREAS, Dr. Taffet captured German General Jodi, Second-in-Command of the
Western Front, and liberotcd a sotelUte of Dachau. He won the Sl1ver
Star for bravery in <<film and is the only physician in the European
campaign to rflCei". this htmor; and.
WHEREAS, Dr. Taffet was the first Docent of the Holocaust Museum and has made
presentatitNIS to over 3,000 school children as _II as civic and religious
organizatitNlS; and.
WHEREAS, he is a retired Family Physician who practiced medicine for over forty
years in New Jersey; and.
WHEREAS, we would Uke to wish him a belated Happy Birthday, as he celebrated his
9CI" birthday on December 1st.
NOW THEREFORE. be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier
County, Florida, that JaflUl1ry 13, 2009, be designated as
Seymour Taffet, M. D. Day
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 13th Day of January, 2009.
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
COLLIS 'Ou. ,FLORIDA
ATTEST:
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DW.r. ., ~OCK, CLERK .