This holiday is a day that Americans show respect for the flag and what it represents. Representing independence and unity, the Star-Spangled Banner has become a powerful symbol of Americanism and the flag is flown proudly.
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While American upholsterer Betsy Ross has been given credit for stitching together the first American flag, there isn’t any sound evidence supporting the story. At the same time, there isn’t any to disprove it, either.
Part of the conflict is there were several designs in consideration at the same time. There were many flag makers and more than one claim to the first.
During Ross’s Revolutionary time, several standards were carried bearing red and white stripes and varying symbols where the blue field and stars now reside.
Another who laid claim to the first design was American author, composer and former United States District Judge Francis Hopkinson. However, his request for compensation for his design was denied because others contributed to the design final design.
Since 1777, the design of the flag has been officially modified twenty-six times. For forty-seven years, the forty-eight-star flag was in effect.
In 1959, the forty-nine-star version became official on July 4. One month later, 34th U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the fifty-star flag on August 21, 1959.
When American teacher Robert G. "Bob" Heft of Michigan was seventeen, he designed the fifty-star American flag for a school project in Lancaster, Ohio. His was one of the more than one thousand five hundred designs that were submitted to President Eisenhower.
HOW TO OBSERVE
Many people have died protecting our country. On National Flag Day, raise the flag and fly it proudly. Spend time learning more about United States flag history as well.
Use #NationalFlagDay to post on social media.
HISTORY
On May 30, 1916, 28th U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation deeming June 14 as Flag Day.
He stated, “It is the anniversary of the day upon which the flag of the United States was adopted by the Congress as the emblem of the Union.”
He also wrote, “On that day rededicate ourselves to the nation, ‘one and inseparable’ from which every thought that is not worthy of our fathers’ first vows in independence, liberty, and right shall be excluded and in which we shall stand with united hearts.”
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