Celebrate the Flag

Grandad Bluff. 8/16/19 dwm

 The United States flag today is essentially what was adopted by the Second Continental Congress June 14, 1777.

 It had the same 13 red and white stripes as our flag now, the changes happened on the sea of blue where a star shines for every state.

 Tomorrow is flag day, established by President Wilson in 1916, to recognize the creation of the stars and stripes.

 The first flag day was celebrated in New York City June 14, 1889 by a kindergarten for the poor with a special ceremony that got the attention of the state's department of education, which had other public schools adopt the celebration in future years.

 While President Wilson was the first president to recognize the day. It was 1949 when Congress agreed with the observance, passing a bill making June 14 Flag Day. It was signed into law by President Truman.

 Take this as a reminder to fly the flag tomorrow, a symbol of the country and the freedoms we cherish. The flag is for all of us it doesn't belong to Republicans or Democrats. 

O say can you see by dawn's early light,

What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,

Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,

O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?

And the Rockets red glare, the Bombs bursting in air,

Gave proof through the night that our Flag was still there;

O! say does that star-spangled Banner yet wave,

O'er the Land of the free and the home of the brave?

                                            Francis Scott Key