Saturday, June 14, is Flag Day. It is one of my favorite holidays. One reason is because it was my dad's birthday. The other reason is because I love our American flag. I love all it stands for, and I am thankful to God and our armed forces daily for allowing me to live in the greatest country on earth. Below are the answers to our Flag Day quiz.
There is no evidence to support that Betsy Ross made the first flag. Evidence actually points to the fact that Francis Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, designed the first flag.
The 1st U.S. President to be born as an American citizen under the U.S. flag was Martin Van Buren, our 8th President.
The idea of celebrating our U.S. Flag came from a small town Wisconsin school teacher named B.J. Cigrand in 1885. Hooray! Let's hear it for our schoolteachers!
Pennsylvania is the only state that observes Flag Day as a legal state holiday. It has done so since 1937. Way to go, Pennsylvania!
The 50 star flag as we know it today was designed by a junior in high school named Bob Heft in 1958. It was a class project. He got a B- on his project.
The U.S. Flag Code was adopted on June 14, 1923 at the first National Flag Conference.
The first official flag (the star arrangement and its dimenstions) was established by an executive order signed by President Taft in 1912. This cut down on private citizens designing their own flags.
The salute to the Pledge of Alligiance was changed in 1942. It was felt the original too closely resembled the Nazi Germany "Heil Hitler" salute.
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Have a great Flag Day, Robin
1 comment:
Robin, I really enjoyed reading Happy Flag Day...It was very interesting plus remembering that my brother was born June 14, 1937..He would have been 71 and was very proud to salute the American Flag....
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