[VAcourier] Lee-Jackson Day Proclamation

[Virginia Division SCV Communication List]

Attached is a JPEG scan, and a PDF of the text, of the recently issued 
Lee-Jackson Day Proclamation which is signed by Governor Timothy M. 
Kaine and Katherine K. Hanley, Secretary of the Commonwealth. The text 
is also copied & pasted below for those who have trouble opening the PDF.

This proclamation will be read this Friday night at the Lee-Jackson Day 
Ceremony in the Capitol Building in Richmond, and also at the 
Lee-Jackson Day Ceremony in Lexington on Saturday. (Please refer to the 
EVENTS page of the Virginia Division Web site located at 
http://www.scvva.org for additional details on these Lee-Jackson Day 
observances).

The attached documents are being provided for those who wish to read the 
proclamation at the various Lee-Jackson Day Ceremonies that will take 
place this weekend. The documents will also be posted on the Virginia 
Division Web site. Please join me in honoring Generals Lee and Jackson 
this weekend by attending one of the many events scheduled throughout 
the Commonwealth of Virginia.


John Sawyer, Commander
Virginia Division SCV




CERTIFICATE of RECOGNITION

By virtue of the authority vested by the Constitution in the Governor of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, there is hereby officially recognized:

LEE-JACKSON DAY

WHEREAS, Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson are native
Virginians, having served our great nation and Commonwealth as 
educators, leaders, and
military strategists; and

WHEREAS, Lee served in the United States Army for more than three 
decades until he left
his position to serve as Commander in Chief of Virginia's military 
forces and as
Commander of the Army of Northern Virginia; and

WHEREAS, Jackson taught philosophy and military tactics as a professor 
at the Virginia
Military Institute in Lexington for nearly a decade before serving 
briefly in the United
States Army and later joining the Confederate Army to fight for his 
native Virginia; and

WHEREAS, Lee dedicated his life after the Civil War to reforming higher 
education in the
South by serving as President of Washington College, now Washington & 
Lee University,
in Lexington, Virginia, where he helped to greatly increase the school's 
funding and expand
the curriculum to create an atmosphere most conducive to learning for 
young men of both
Southern and Northern heritage; and

WHEREAS, Jackson's leadership and bravery enabled him to rally his 
troops to several
improbable victories against opposition forces much larger than his own, 
and Jackson's
inspired "Stonewall Brigade" fought alongside General Lee's troops 
toward another victory
even after their leader was fatally wounded on the second day of the 
Battle of
Chancellorsville; and

WHEREAS, it is fitting to recognize Generals Lee and Jackson as two of 
our nation's most
notable military strategists, as beloved leaders among their troops, as 
pioneers in the field of
higher education and as faithful and dedicated Virginians; and

NOW, THEREFORE, I, Timothy M. Kaine, do hereby recognize January 16, 
2009 as
LEE-JACKSON DAY in the COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA and call this observance to
the attention of all our citizens.


/s/ Timothy M. Kaine
_____________________________
Governor



/s/ Katherine K. Hanley
_____________________________
Secretary of the Commonwealth


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