I hope you’re flying yours high. Everyday, in fact. Here’s some background on how Flag Day got started, courtesy of the National Flag Day Foundation.

On June 14th, 1885, Bernard J. Cigrand, a 19 year old teacher at Stony Hill School, placed a 10 inch, 38- star flag in a bottle on his desk then assigned essays on the flag and its significance. This observance, commemorated Congresses adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777. This observance was also the beginning of Cigrand’s long years of fervent and devoted effort to bring about national recognition and observance of Flag Day. The crowning achievement of his life came at age fifty when President Wilson, on May 30, 1916, issued a proclamation calling for a nation wide observance of Flag Day. Then in 1949, President Truman signed an Act Of Congress designating the 14th day of June every year as National Flag Day. On June 14th, 2004, the 108th U.S. Congress voted unanimously on H.R. 662 that Flag Day originated in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.

And some thoughts from Mark Steyn, “A flag has to be worth burning…”

…Banning flag desecration flatters the desecrators and suggests that the flag of this great republic is a wee delicate bloom that has to be protected. It’s not. It gets burned because it’s strong. I’m a Canadian and one day, during the Kosovo war, I switched on the TV and there were some fellows jumping up and down in Belgrade burning the Stars and Stripes and the Union Jack. Big deal, seen it a million times. But then to my astonishment some of those excitable Serbs produced a Maple Leaf from somewhere and started torching that. Don’t ask me why – we had a small contribution to the Kosovo bombing campaign but evidently it was enough to arouse the ire of Slobo’s boys. I’ve never been so proud to be Canadian in years. I turned the sound up to see if they were yelling “Death to the Itsy-Bitsy Miniature Satan!”, but you can’t have everything…

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  1. MACVEL says:

    No weekend special podcast. (sniff)

    WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA…

  2. MACVEL says:

    By the way, in the Gulf there was magnificent desecration of British flags!

  3. Nativevoice says:

    Tammy, if you have time checkout this video you will love it. From a conservative Republican, small business owner and Marine Corps veteran Rick Barber running for congress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQ7ZDUutU4&feature=player_embedded

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