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File #: 16-706    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Proclamation(s) Status: Passed
File created: 10/24/2016 In control: Board of Sedgwick County Commissioners
On agenda: 11/2/2016 Final action: 11/2/2016
Title: PROCLAMATION DECLARING WORLD FREEDOM DAY. Read by: Chairman Jim Howell or his designee. RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt the proclamation.
Attachments: 1. World Freedom Day Berlin Wall 110216.pdf

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PROCLAMATION DECLARING WORLD FREEDOM DAY.

Read by: Chairman Jim Howell or his designee.

 

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Adopt the proclamation.

 

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On November 9, 1989, with the continuing decline of the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe, and the increasing perseverance of East Germans striving for democracy, in a powerful act of freedom, Germans from both sides of the wall joined to tear down the icon of division.

 

Requested by: Commissioner Karl Peterjohn.

 

Accepting by: Lon Smith, Chief Development Officer, Museum of World Treasures.

 

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