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The “Stars and Stripes”, the official National symbol of the United States of America was authorized by congress on that Saturday of June 14, 1777 in the fifth item of the days agenda. The entry in the journal of the Continental Congress 1774-1789 Vol. Vlll 1777 reads “Resolved that the flag of the thirteen United States be Thirteen stripes alternate red and white: that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”
In Waubeka, Wisconsin, in 1885 Bernard John Cigrand a nineteen year old school teacher in a one room school placed a 10” 38 star flag in an inkwell and had his students write essays on what the flag meant to them. He called June 14th the flag’s birthday. Stony Hill School is now a historical site. From that day on Bernard J. Cigrand dedicated himself to inspire not only his students but also all Americans in the real meaning and majesty of our flag.
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LibertyMark
June 14th, 2012
Google blew this off, but Bing honored today.
Time to switch from google, those Godless, earth-worshopping socialist, to bing.
chiefillinicake
June 14th, 2012
Look at her flappin’
Ain’t she a beauty?
scribble
June 14th, 2012
I love the American flag. I love it when I’m driving or walking and it appears down the street or around the corner. I usually get goose bumps thinking about what it means to me – my great-grandparents and grandparents coming to this country and giving me the gift of being an American. And especially for all the men and women who fought and died for it. Thank you.
Don't Tread On Me
June 14th, 2012
LibertyMark,
I heard that Google got upset when it became (rumored at least) that Bing was essentially ripping off Google’s algorithms to enable its own searches.
If true that’d make me even more happy to stop googling and start Binging.
scribble
June 14th, 2012
“…and had his students write essays on what the flag meant to them.”
Isn’t an assignment like this illegal in American public schools today? You know, because it might offend someone from another culture? (GO HOME!)
If it isn’t, I’d hate to be the teacher who had to read all the garbage the libs’ kids would write about it.
Cruisin' Cat
June 14th, 2012
A look into the future through a Kooladian (love that, by the way) sees Christmas becoming St. Barack Day, and Flag Day would, of course, become Fag Day.
Unneutral
June 14th, 2012
I think there should be a simple stipulation;
You don’t have to love the flag of the United States of America, but, if you hate it…..pack your shit and leave.
Jim
June 14th, 2012
BTW, its also the US Army’s birthday today.
Buddy
June 14th, 2012
Oooh, let’s ask Bill Press what he thinks of our flag.
Bet he says something derogatory and stupid.
Efficacy
June 14th, 2012
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
My grandaughter says the pledge in her school. How many other schools still ‘allow’ it to be said? How many still allow ‘God’ in the pledge? How many even have American flags?
sandybanks
June 14th, 2012
Not Flag Day without Sousa
shootersgrandma
June 14th, 2012
I check my calendar every day to see if there’s a reason to fly Ol’ Glory. I love the feeling I get when I take it outside and place it on the house. Someday I want to get a lighted flagpole in the yard so I can fly it everyday. But I will still want to place it out there by myself.
I love living in the only country that recognizes freedom, democracy and its republic and independance! Our flag represents that freedom so completely.
House of Kell
June 15th, 2012
@ShootersGranda: You don’t need a reason to fly our nations flag…is it Fri?
Good enough for me….
My flags don’t come down except on Memorial Day to be replaced by new flags….