In honor of #FlagDay today, we'd like to know: What does the red, white and blue mean to you? pic.twitter.com/yqBJ1RLsJi
— Homes for Our Troops (@HomesForOurTrps) June 14, 2015
Via Yahoo:
What’s Flag Day? It’s the American celebration of the birthday of the Stars and Stripes. On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress passed a resolution “that the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white on a blue field, representing the new constellation”.
So Happy 238th birthday, Old Glory. Long may you wave, o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
After all, we’re a nation that puts unique emphasis on the symbols of its revolutionary past. The flag unites us. Sarah Palin celebrates Flag Day. Hillary Clinton celebrates Flag Day. Little kids waving tiny flags from California to Connecticut celebrate Flag Day.
“Nowhere on Earth do citizens fly their national flags, as Americans do, everywhere they live and everywhere they go, from our front porches to our pickup trucks,” writes journalist and historian Marc Leepson in his book “Flag: An American Biography.”
Like many American holidays, Flag Day didn’t really get rolling until the mid to late 1800s. Like many American holidays, Flag Day has competing people, cities and states that claim to be the first to establish its celebration.