Reminders from Our Flag
for Friday, December 1, 2017
for Friday, December 1, 2017
Across the USA, Our Flag flies at full staff.
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The Beacon of Honor - Awakens Our Flag to Inform and Inspire Patriotic Citizens
[ Rosa Parks with Martln Luther King in the background
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On this date, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man and move to the black section of the city bus. For this defiant act, which is considered the beginning of the modern civil rights movement, Rosa Parks was arrested by Montgomery, Alabama police. After her arrest, African-Americans in Montgomery began a year-long boycott of the city bus system and legal challenges to Montgomery's city bus racial segregation were taken all the way to the U.S Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the bus system racial discrimination was illegal and that buses had to be desegregated (racially integrated).
SPECIAL #NEVERFORGOTTENFRIDAY
FALLEN SERVICE MEMBER COMMEMORATION
(Informs us of any new service members who were killed, during this past week, while serving in Global War on Terrorism - OIF/OEF combat zones)
powered by:
U.S. Army Corporal Todd McGurn
Died November 25, 2017 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom
20, of Riverside, CA; served as indirect fire infantryman assigned to 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, Texas; killed November 25 in a non-combat related incident in Baghdad, Iraq.
[summary courtesy of Military Times' Honor the Fallen website]
We honor and thank Todd McGurn for defending our freedoms and fighting to liberate the lives of others.
GO TO to this article to honor him and learn about his life and family
Died November 25, 2017 Serving During Operation Iraqi Freedom
20, of Riverside, CA; served as indirect fire infantryman assigned to 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss, Texas; killed November 25 in a non-combat related incident in Baghdad, Iraq.
[summary courtesy of Military Times' Honor the Fallen website]
We honor and thank Todd McGurn for defending our freedoms and fighting to liberate the lives of others.
GO TO to this article to honor him and learn about his life and family
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In closing, today's 'Slice of Americana' serves up ...
that ... on this date in 1973, Jack Nicklaus became the first pro golfer to earn $2 million in a year
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- a service from the Beacon of Honor - Awakens Our Flag program
Now, go be a good citizen!!!
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