Flag Day - June 14th
Flag day commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States by resolution of the second Continental Congress in 1777.
President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed officially that June 14 is flag day. In August of 1949 National Flag Day was established by an act of congress.
Flag day is not an official holiday, but it is important to all good Americans.
There is a story about Theodore Roosevelt and flag day that goes like this; On June 14, 1908, "Theodore Roosevelt was dining outside Philadelphia, when he noticed a man wiping his nose with what he thought was the American Flag. In outrage, Roosevelt picked up a small wooden rod and began to whip the man for 'defacing the symbol of America.' After about five or six strong whacks, he noticed that the man was not wiping his nose with a flag, but with a blue handkerchief with white stars. Upon realization of this, he apologized to the man, but hit him once more for making him 'riled up with national pride.'"
It has been a time-honored tradition that the President of the United States each flag day shall officially proclaim the observance. I know Bill Clinton, and I know the Bushes did, and I can only hope that perhaps our current president may step out of character and honor our flag.
God bless America!
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