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Flag Raising
Boy does 6:15 AM come early. That's right all throughout the camp citizens were waking up early this morning to attend the first flag raising ceremony. Tired eyes and sleepy young men assembled on the quadrangle at 7:00 AM to start the beginning of their 3rd day at Boys State. And what a full day it will be.
City Councils will be meeting for the first time today to decide what laws will be governing their cities. State Central Committees will begin the discussions on party platforms and how their conventions should be run later in the week. Oh and don't forget campaign speeches, how can we forget those. We have an election coming up this afternoon. County office nominees are giving campaign speeches at the County Meetings to try and win some votes.....

Government in Action
Meetings are going on all over camp and things are taking off like the heat of election season is here. City Councils have held their first official meetings and the first laws have been made. City Clerks have been trained in how to take proper minutes and will be submitting their records daily for review.
Public Affairs teams have met this afternoon to begin their review of the proposed amendment. Over the next few days these teams will be reviewing the amendment and creating a presentation with the teams stance on the issue. Public hearings on the issue will be Wednesday afternoon.

Leadership in Mr. Lincoln's Prairie
The organizational meetings for the State Central Committees were held and officers were elected today. Results of those elections are as follows:

The House of Representatives also gaveled to order today and held their opening elections. After lengthy campaigning the Representatives voted on their leadership. The results of that vote are:

A slight power outage caused a delay in this evenings activities. Nothing that couldn't be overcome. After being delayed about and hour and a half we were still treated to a fantastic band concert by the Boys State Band. After hearing uplifting and crowd roaring songs out evening assembly began. The theme rang through with the sound of Leadership and Accomplishment from America's heartland, Illinois. We heard of ordinary people who had been called upon to do extraordinary things. Such as some of the citizens will be. What will tomorrow bring.