Flag Day
Adopted as the flag of the United States of America by the Flag Resolution of 1777 enacted on 14 June, 1777.
The flag was first flown from Fort Stanwix, on the site of the present city of Rome, New York, on August 3, 1777. It was first under fire three days later in the Battle of Oriskany, August 6, 1777.
An official flag has a rise to run ratio of 1 to 1.9 [the flag should be 1.9 times as long as it is high] with the canton [the dark blue part] that rises over the top seven stripes with a run of 40% of the flag’s run.
The only time you will see a “correct” US Flag is if you see the official colors of a military unit. Most flags are 3’X5′ or 4’X6′ instead of 3’X5.7′ or 4’X7.6′.
Frances Bellamy, the Baptist minister and socialist who wrote the Pledge of Allegiance was from Rome, New York.
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Hmmm! Been awhile since I posted any quotes. Let’s see what I have…
“…a union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets and in which strife
and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindness has no charm for
me. I shall mourn for my country and for the welfare of mankind. If the union is
dissolved and the government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share
the miseries of my people, and save in defence, will draw my sword on none.”
— General Robert E. Lee, CSA
“But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it
is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future
security.”
— Declaration Of Independence – 1776
“It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that
from these honoured dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they
gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead
shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of
freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall
not perish from the earth.”
— Abraham Lincoln – 1863
How’s that? Topical, and relevant. 😉
Certainly an interesting collection of writers.