TODAY IS FLAG DAY! Celebrating the 232nd Anniversary of The Flag Resolution of 1777On June 14, 1777, the Marine Committee of the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution which stated: "Resolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”
Waubeka, Wisconsin, 1885 Bernard John Cigrand a nineteen year old school teacher in a one room school placed a 10” 38 star flag in an inkwell and had his students write essays on what the flag meant to them. He called June 14th the flag’s birthday.
The anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777 was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30th, 1916. On 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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