; Whereas Arab Americans have served in protection of the United States in every major confrontation and in all branches of the military, and from World War I and World War II to the present day as exemplified by ace jet pilot, Colonel James Jabara who was highly decorated and served in World War II and the Korean War, and all other Arab American persons in uniform today, as well as first responders throughout the United States, and as public servants from both political parties, past and present, that have served in the United States Government, the Congress, the Senate, and as ambassadors and cabinet members; Whereas Arab Americans have excelled in science, engineering, medicine, education, scholarship, and architecture including an organic chemist, Elias James Corey (Nobel Prize 1990), chemist investigating transition reactions, Ahmed Zewail (Nobel Prize 1999), chemical physicist, Mostafa El-Sayed, a leading nanoscience researcher, a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a National Medal of Science laureate who sat on the President’s National Medal of Science Committee in 2014, Dr. Farouk El-Baz a pioneer in space photography, Dr. Michael DeBakey, cardiovascular surgeon and inventor of ventricular assist devices and aorta repair procedures; Whereas, in 1959, Mohamed Atalla, an Egyptian-American engineer who was an important pioneer and contributor to the early field of modern electronics, invented the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET), which is the most-frequently manufactured device in history, and hailed by the United States Patent and Trademark Office as one of the most important inventions in electronics