Day #10

     Flag Day is celebrated in America on June 14, commemorating the day the first flag resolution was passed one year after Betsy Ross had received the order from General Washington to make the first flag.  The Second Continental Congress passed the flag resolution on June 14, 1777.

     It was resolved: That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.

     Many teachers began conducting patriotic ceremonies commemorating Flag Day to teach children about the history of the flag.  One such school teacher, Bernard J. Cigrand, lobbied Congress for many years for Flag Day to be officially observed.  It was 100 years, June 14, 1877, before our nation observed Flag Day.

     Other patriotic groups like Sons of the American Revolution, also spent years trying to convince Congress to make Flag Day official.  In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation stating that June 14 shall be National Flag Day.  In 1949, it was made official by an Act of Congress.

     I got most of this information from an article I read with the info being supplies by the Betsy Ross House.  I thought it was interesting. 

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. 

I hope all of you had a wonderful Flag Day, and long may it wave.

Until next time,

Dolores