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Post by proutdoors » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:02 am

Hope everyone has their flags out today! salxxute salxxute salxxute :not-worthy salxxute salxxute

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Post by MuleyMadness » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:06 am

Yep for me! salxxute

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Post by DeadI » Thu Jun 14, 2007 9:35 am

Yes sir. Put mine out this morning. The only one in the neighborhood. :thumb
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Post by proutdoors » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:00 am

Very disappointing seeing how few flags are up today. (???) Of course, I saw no mention of Flag Day in the paper this morning. :>/

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Post by lifetime hunter » Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:20 am

salxxute salxxute Thanks for the reminder Pro... already have mine up... and again the only one up on my street! :nono:

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Post by AGCHAWK » Thu Jun 14, 2007 7:03 pm

salxxute

I had mine out too! Wouldn't miss it!
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Post by killerbee » Thu Jun 14, 2007 10:54 pm

honestly, i never heard of it?????????? i wish i would have so i could have represented! didn't even see one around?? is it just a local thing or a national day of honor?? just seen this post, bummes me out wish i would have known. what is it for? other than the obvious??

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Post by AGCHAWK » Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:47 am

Killer, here's the story behind Flag Day. I sure wish the press would have said something in advance about it and gotten word out....oh wait, what am I saying? That would be POSITIVE NEWS! My bad...I forgot that the press wouldn't dare cover anything that shows the flag or the country in a positive light. To be newsworthy it's gotta be death, destruction, mayhem, or anti-government...what was I thinking?!?!

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The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America's birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as 'Flag Birthday'. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as 'Flag Birthday', or 'Flag Day'.

On June 14, 1889, George Balch, a kindergarten teacher in New York City, planned appropriate ceremonies for the children of his school, and his idea of observing Flag Day was later adopted by the State Board of Education of New York. On June 14, 1891, the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia held a Flag Day celebration, and on June 14 of the following year, the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, celebrated Flag Day.

Following the suggestion of Colonel J Granville Leach (at the time historian of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution), the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America on April 25, 1893 adopted a resolution requesting the mayor of Philadelphia and all others in authority and all private citizens to display the Flag on June 14th. Leach went on to recommend that thereafter the day be known as 'Flag Day', and on that day, school children be assembled for appropriate exercises, with each child being given a small Flag.

Two weeks later on May 8th, the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution unanimously endorsed the action of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames. As a result of the resolution, Dr. Edward Brooks, then Superintendent of Public Schools of Philadelphia, directed that Flag Day exercises be held on June 14, 1893 in Independence Square. School children were assembled, each carrying a small Flag, and patriotic songs were sung and addresses delivered.

In 1894, the governor of New York directed that on June 14 the Flag be displayed on all public buildings. With BJ Cigrand and Leroy Van Horn as the moving spirits, the Illinois organization, known as the American Flag Day Association, was organized for the purpose of promoting the holding of Flag Day exercises. On June 14th, 1894, under the auspices of this association, the first general public school children's celebration of Flag Day in Chicago was held in Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks, with more than 300,000 children participating.

Adults, too, participated in patriotic programs. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, delivered a 1914 Flag Day address in which he repeated words he said the flag had spoken to him that morning: "I am what you make me; nothing more. I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself."

Inspired by these three decades of state and local celebrations, Flag Day - the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777 - was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30th, 1916. While Flag Day was celebrated in various communities for years after Wilson's proclamation, it was not until August 3rd, 1949, that President Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14th of each year as National Flag Day.
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Post by kadejones2 » Fri Jun 15, 2007 8:08 pm

never herd of it tell today but my family always has a flag up

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