National Life Group and ESI – along with the NYSE and NASDAQ – will be closed on Wednesday, June 19th, in observance of Juneteenth National Independence Day. Please be aware that many, if not all, of our strategic partners will be closed that day as well. We will re-open Thursday, June 20th, with normal business hours.
While Juneteenth may be a newly federally recognized holiday, people in cities and towns across the U.S. have celebrated June 19th for a century and a half as on June 19, 1865, enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas were told they were free. The announcement in Galveston put into effect the Emancipation Proclamation, which had been issued more than two and a half years earlier on January 1, 1863, by President Abraham Lincoln. In recognition of Juneteenth, to honor the struggle for, and the progress made toward racial equity, National Life and ESI include this federal holiday on our list of office-closed holidays.
Thank you for all you do for your clients, for National Life, ESI, and the communities we live in.
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