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Happy Juneteenth

June 19, 2009

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Nice reminder from GovGab that in addition to it being Father's Day this weekend, today is Juneteenth, the anniversary of the June 19, 1865 arrival of Union soldiers in Galveston, TX, to spread the news of the Emancipation Proclamation to what were then the furthest reaches of the country.

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