Sunday, June 14, 2020

OPINION_ Paul Batura: American flag is 243 years old on this Flag Day

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Paul Batura: American flag is 243 years old on this Flag Day

By Paul Bucala | Fox News




Celebrating Flag Day and how to fold an American flag


Sunday is Flag Day – the 243rd anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as America’s flag. It comes at a time of great cultural and political upheaval.

From ongoing protests in dozens of cities sparked by the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police to anarchists and others establishing an “autonomous zone” in Seattle, rarely have we needed more of an excuse to lift up and celebrate Old Glory – a traditionally unifying symbol that stands for freedom, sacrifice, national pride, equality and American exceptionalism.

Although the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution on June 14, 1777, declaring the flag to be 13 alternating red and white stripes along with a constellation of white stars in a blue field, it wasn’t until 1916 that June 14 was officially established as Flag Day.


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