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Happy Fourth, Freepers!
I love those historical flags. Thanks for posting.
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Happy Fourth, Freepers!
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http://www.nationalflagday.com/Today.asp
Sorry. The instigator of National Flag Day was NOT from Switzerland. He was from Luxomberg.
Father of Flag Day
Bernard J. Cigrand was first and foremost an American patriot. From the 1880s through the 1930s, he preached respect and honor for the nation and its flag.
In 1885, however, Cigrand still a teenager and only at the beginning of his journey. He entered dental college later that year, mixing his professional studies with the promotion of the flag.
In June 1886 he made his first public proposal for the annual observance of the birth of the flag when he wrote an article titled “The Fourteenth of June” in the old Chicago Argus newspaper.
In June of 1888, at the same time he was graduating first in his class from dental college, Cigrand addressed a Chicago organization known as the “Sons of America”. In his speech he emphasized the good that would come from a flag holiday. In response, the organization undertook to publish a magazine called the “American Standard” to inculcate reverence for American emblems, and appointed Cigrand its editor-in-chief. Cigrand’s articles in this magazine helped direct public attention to the Flag and the date of its birth.
In the years that followed, Cigrand authored hundreds of other magazine and newspaper articles advocating recognition of the June 14th adoption of the Stars and Stripes.
In the third Saturday in June, 1894, , the first general public school children’s celebration of Flag Day in Chicago was held in Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks, with more than 300,000 children participating. These observances were held in the five parks again the next year, also on the third Saturday of June.
In the years that followed, 36 Governors, scores of mayors and five Presidents of the United States sent delegates and credentials agreeing that Flag Day should be observed in all states of the Union on the actual June 14 anniversary of the adoption of the flag .By 1916 flag ceremonies on June 14 had become so prevalent that President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation establishing Flag Day as an annual national event.
Books by Bernard J. CiGrand
“Story of the American Flag” Profusely illustrated.
“The Real Abraham Lincoln”
“The Life of Alexander Hamilton”
“The Real Robert Morris” (A Pennsylvania banker known as “the financier of the American Revolution.”)
“Story of the Great Seal of the United States.”
“History of American Emblems”
“The History of American Heraldry”
Cigrand died of a sudden heart attack on 16 May 1932
President Harry S. Truman signed the legislation in 1949 and June 14th was properly designated Flag Day. On June 14th, 2004, the 108th U.S. Congress voted unanimously on H.R. 662 that Flag Day originated in Ozaukee County, Waubeka Wisconsin, 60 years after Truman.
Don't think this doesn't have consequences. It has everything to do with rules of evidence and jury instructions, especially as regards jury nullification.
I've often wondered what would happen if I ever had a case in Federal court and brought a small civil flag into the room with a little extendable stand so that my flag was higher than the one behind the judge... what would he do? If he understood it, my guess is that I'd be arrested on the spot.
There is a Culpeper Flag on the wall behind me, and on the wall I’m facing, there us a 4x6’ US Flag that was flown over the Capitol.
Thank you for this. I plan to print them out and display them on my office walls.
Thanks for later review
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Good morning ladies and gents. Flag-o-Ping.
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