Memorandum for Senior Pentagon Leadership Defense Agency, DOD Field Activity Directors
June 15, 2023
June 15, 2023
WASHINGTON, June 15 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following memorandum on June 14, 2023:
SUBJECT: 2023 Department of Defense Juneteenth National Independence Day Observance In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation confirming that all enslaved people in the confederate states are to be freed. It took two and a half years before General Gordon Granger presented General Orders No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, stating "The people of Texas are . . .
SUBJECT: 2023 Department of Defense Juneteenth National Independence Day Observance In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation confirming that all enslaved people in the confederate states are to be freed. It took two and a half years before General Gordon Granger presented General Orders No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, stating "The people of Texas are . . .