170902- Flag's Daily Briefing

Our Flag's Daily Briefing
for Saturday, September 2, 2017

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TODAY'S FLAG STATUS:

Today, across the USA, Our Flag flies at full staff, except in 2 states - Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Connecticut is at half-staff to commemorate U.S. Navy Electronics Technician 3rd Class Dustin Louis Doyon until his funeral service this week.
Rhode Island remembers U.S. Army Specialist Matthew Turcotte who was killed in a training accident at Fort Carson, CO.
RI and CT will remain at half-staff until the service member's funeral service.

[ Go here to find out more about the 10 sailors killed on the USS McCain ]

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TODAY'S REMINDER FROM OUR FLAG:
... V-J Day in USA ...

Japanese representatives for the surrender ceremony [public domain image]

President Harry S. Truman declared V-J Day (Victory over Japan Day) for the USA, on September 2, 1945, to commemorate the formal Japanese surrender to the Allies aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay - ending World War II.

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TODAY'S FALLEN SERVICE MEMBER COMMEMORATION
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[U.S. Army - public domain image]

Army Pfc. Christopher A. Sisson
Died September 2, 2003 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom
20, of Oak Park, Ill.; assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 325th Parachute Infantry Regiment, Fort Bragg, N.C.;
died Sept. 2 in Baghdad, Iraq. Sisson was in a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter participating in an air assault mission. The helicopter flipped and crashed on take off.

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

We honor and thank Christopher Sisson for defending our freedoms and fighting to liberate the lives of others.
Go to this Military Times 'Honor the Fallen' article to honor him and learn about his life and family

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[Serving up a slice of Americana
... with that old time Rock-n-Roll ...]

[pic by musikanimal per CC license on wikipedia]

[On this date in 1995, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opened in Cleveland, Ohio - right on the banks of Lake Erie. It had opening ceremony performances by Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Little Richard, Al Green, The Allman Brothers Band, Booker T. & the MG's, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, The Pretenders, John Fogerty, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, George Clinton, The Kinks, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, The Animals' Eric Burdon, and Boz Scaggs.]

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