U.S. Air Force: Juneteenth - American Celebration of Freedom
June 20, 2024
June 20, 2024
SHEPPARD AIR FORCE BASE, Texas, June 20 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news on June 19, 2024:
By Julie Svoboda, 82nd Training Wing Public Affairs
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring, "all persons held as slaves" within rebellious states "are, and henceforth shall be free." However, it took two and half years for the word to reach Texas, the last bastion of Confederate power. It wasn . . .
By Julie Svoboda, 82nd Training Wing Public Affairs
President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, declaring, "all persons held as slaves" within rebellious states "are, and henceforth shall be free." However, it took two and half years for the word to reach Texas, the last bastion of Confederate power. It wasn . . .