170826- Flag's Daily Briefing

Our Flag's Daily Briefing
for Saturday, August 26, 2017

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TODAY'S FLAG STATUS:

Across the USA, Our Flag flies at full staff, except in Connecticut - where it flies at half-staff to commemorate U.S. Navy Electronics Technician 3rd Class Dustin Louis Doyon, who was killed during the USS McCain ship collision on Monday.

[Click here to learn more about today's half-staff honorees and verify the latest flag status for every state (courtesy of FlagNotify.com)]

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TODAY'S REMINDER FROM OUR FLAG:
... all men (and women) are created equal ...

Speaker of the House Gillett signing the 19th Amendment, the Women's Suffrage Bill, into law [public domain image]

NATIONAL WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY

Women's Equality Day is proclaimed each year by the United States President to commemorate the signing of the 19th Amendment, on August 26, 1920, giving women the right to vote.
Every president, since Women's Equality Day was passed as a resolution in 1971, has proclaimed some of or all of the following statements from the original proclamation - which reads...
Joint Resolution of Congress, 1971 Designating August 26 of each year as Women's Equality Day:

WHEREAS, the women of the United States have been treated as second-class citizens and have not been entitled the full rights and privileges, public or private, legal or institutional, which are available to male citizens of the United States; and
WHEREAS, the women of the United States have united to assure that these rights and privileges are available to all citizens equally regardless of sex;
WHEREAS, the women of the United States have designated August 26, the anniversary date of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, as symbol of the continued fight for equal rights: and
WHEREAS, the women of United States are to be commended and supported in their organizations and activities,

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that August 26 of each year is designated as "Women's Equality Day," and the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation annually in commemoration of that day in 1920, on which the women of America were first given the right to vote, and that day in 1970, on which a nationwide demonstration for women's rights took place.

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TODAY'S COMBATANT KILLED IN ACTION (KIA) COMMEMORATION
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District of Columbia Army National Guard Spc. Darryl T. Dent
Died August 26, 2003 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom
Specialist Darryl Dent, 21, of Washington, D.C.; assigned to 547th Transportation Company, U.S. Army National Guard, based in Washington, D.C.;
killed Aug. 26 in southeast Arimadi, Iraq. Dent was in a convoy when an improvised explosive device struck his vehicle.

[summary courtesy of Military Times' Honor the Fallen website]

We honor and thank Darryl Dent for defending our freedoms and fighting to liberate the lives of others.
Go here to honor him and learn about his life and family here

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[Serving up a slice of Americana]

Seal in 2012 [used per CCL on Wikipedia = posted by Eva Rinaldi]

[On August 26, 1995, Seal's "Kiss From A Rose" hit #1 on the U.S. billboard. At that time, Seal said, "I owe my career to Joel Schumacher," because he was the film director that chose Seal to sing this song for the movie Batman Forever.]

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