Reminders from Our Flag
for Thursday, December 19, 2019

Half-Staff Alerts for December 19
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[ Map and Half-Staff Flag details, with honoree pictures, below ]

Half-Staff Alerts & Honorees for December 19

All City Flags across Los Angeles, CALIFORNIA (CA: Dec. 18 - Jan. 7):  Los Angeles Mayor ordered all City Flags across Los Angeles to half-staff, immediately on Wed., Dec. 18 to sunset on Tue., Jan. 7, in honor of Former First Assistant Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Earl Paysinger.  CLICK HERE to read the Flag order.  And, GO HERE to learn more about his and his law enforcement career.

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All Flags across IOWA (IA: Dec. 18 - 20):  Iowa Governor ordered all Flags at state facilities across Iowa to half-staff, immediately on Wed., Dec. 18 to sunset Fri., Dec. 20, in honor of former University of Iowa Coach Hayden Fry.  CLICK HERE to read the Flag order.

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All Flags in Greenwich, Connecticut (CT: until TBD): CO South Metro District Fire stations, assumedly with approval and authority of the Governor, have all Flags aGreenwich Mayor, assumedly with approval and authority of the Governor ordered all town Flag to half-staff, on Tue., Dec. 17, until sunset on the date of his interment (TBD), in honor of Greenwich Police Officer Justin Quagliani.  GO HERE to read about this Flag event.

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All Flags across WISCONSIN (WI: Dec. 18 - 19):  WI Governor ordered all Flags at state facilities across Wisconsin to half-staff, from sunrise on Wed., Dec. 18 to sunset Thu., Dec. 19, in honor of former Oneida Nation Chairman Rick Hill.  CLICK HERE to read the Flag order.

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All Flags across South Metro Fire-Rescue District Stations in Colorado (CO: until TBD): CO South Metro District Fire stations, assumedly with approval and authority of the Governor, have all Flags at half-staff, from Mon., Dec. 16, to sunset on the date of his interment (TBD), in honor of former Assistant Chief of Operations Troy Jackson, whose line of duty death was from adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare job-related cancer.  GO HERE to read about this Flag event.

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All Flags across NEW JERSEY (NJ: Dec. 13 - 20):  NJ Governor ordered all Flags at state facilities across New Jersey to half-staff, from sunrise on Fri., Dec. 13 to sunset Fri., Dec. 20, in recognition of the victims of the hate crime in Jersey City: Detective Joseph Seals, Moshe Deutsch, Linda Minda Ferencz, and Douglas Miguel Rodriguez.  CLICK HERE to read the Flag order.

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Upcoming Half-Staffs

All Flags across CO on 12/20
​All Flags across AL on 12/22

Today's Moment to Remember
... George Washington and his Continental Army arrive at Valley Forge - a winter stay that proves American soldiers commitment to the Revolutionary War and earning America's freedom ... ​

[ General George Washington and General Marquis de Lafayette checking on soldiers at Valley Forge =public domain image ]

On this date, December 19, in 1777, the Continental Army, with 12,000 troops led by George Washington, arrived at Valley Forge - an encampment 18 miles outside of Philadelphia.  Here at Valley Forge, the soldiers endured a harsh winter and severe lack of supplies (food, clothing, and equipment) as they prepared and trained to re-engage against the Brits holding Philadelphia in the spring of 1778.  In addition to General Washington's amazement at his troop's endurance, here's what General Lafayette expressed, "the unfortunate soldiers were in want of everything; they had neither coats, hats, shirts, nor shoes; their feet and legs froze till they had become almost black, and it was often necessary to amputate them."

[ Continental Army soldiers training at Valley Forge = public domain image ]

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