180221W- Reminders from Our Flag

Strengthening Our Future by Honoring Our Past

Reminders from Our Flag
for Wednesday, February 21, 2018
- a 'Women to Honor Wednesday'

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On this 'Women to Honor Wednesday' during 'African American History Month,' we recall ...
... Cathay Williams ...
He (secretly a 'She') served for 2-years as a Private in the U.S. Army expanding America's protection of citizens to the West. Back in that time, women were not allowed to serve in the military, but she grew up serving as a cook feeding the Union soldiers during the Civil War and was very familiar with it. Since it was difficult to find work as a liberated female slave, she secretly joined the U.S. Army in 1866 to make ends meet. She and other members of her 'Buffalo Soldier' infantry regiment, marched hundreds of miles throughout the West from Missouri to Oklahoma and New Mexico battling Native Americans and others resisting America's expansion. Her bravery, fighting spirit, and sly abilities earned her fame and reflected an American pioneering way of a different kind.

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- a service from the Beacon of Honor - Awakens Our Flag program

Now go 'Be a good citizen' today by ...
... picking up and disposing of 2 pieces of trash that will help
keep America beautiful !!!

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(Official motto of the United States of America)
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