"Stop. This is not Iraq, this is not endless. I was there for both. Our generation knows better, and so does this president! He called the last 20 years of nation-building wars dumb. And he's right."
"This is the opposite. This operation is a clear devastating decisive mission. Destroy the missile threat, destroy the navy, NO NUKES."
Boom.
It’s a day we should all celebrate. A day of freedom.
Juneteenth commemorates the time the news finally reached the last of the United States (Texas) that slavery had been abolished.
President Lincoln, a Republican, issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.
This established that all enslaved people in Confederate states in rebellion against the Union “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.” This, however, was not the end of slavery, nor was it the end of the war.
The largest battle of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, took place from July 1-3, 1863, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee attempted invading Pennsylvania. The end was beginning for the southern states’ attempt to protect slavery.
On April 9, 1865, two months before Juneteenth, Lee surrendered in Virginia, marking the end of the Civil War.
Two months later, federal troops began the arduous task of working their way through the devastated south, making it eventually to Galveston, Texas, where they secured the state and ...
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