Mr. Speaker. February 15 marks the 109th anniversary of the founding of the first American Sokol unit by a group of Czech immigrants in St. Louis. Mo.. and on October 30. 1892. the first Slovak Sokol Society was organized. The members of the American Sokol OrganizationCzechand Sokol U.S.A.-Slovakas well as the Catholic Sokols. practice a system of physical fitness through a series of calisthenics and activities which are allencompassing. with the realization that to maintain a free nation. its people must be physically and morally strong. Sokol stresses the development of physical. spiritual. moral. and cultural enlightenment among its members and for this reason.
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