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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Yeah but the “under god” part was snuck in much later. And I never say those words for they diminish the nation.
BTW: I do appreciate those little historical facts you toss out and am concerned you might run out.
Shirt, I graduated high school from Oriskany Central School while living between Oriskany and Rome, New York. They teach state history in New York, and several branches of my family go back to the time when New York was called New Holland. There was a whole lot of history crammed in.
I was in elementary school when that was slapped on by a Republican Congress and refused to say it because “That’s not the way Miss Smith taught us in first grade, and Miss Smith wouldn’t make a mistake like that”. My third grade teacher admitted that I terrified her.