Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: PreviouslyA-Lurker
This is awesome -- please view!

Definitely awesome - Thank you for the link PreviouslyA-Lurker (I hope others go there)!



40 posted on 06/14/2006 8:54:38 AM PDT by easonc52
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 38 | View Replies ]


To: easonc52; JustAmy; The Mayor; ST.LOUIE1; Billie

Great photo! Love those shirts the twins are wearing.





On this day in …


* 1775, the United States Army was founded

* 1777, the Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag
(Today is Flag Day)

* 1943, the Supreme Court ruled schoolchildren could not be
compelled to salute the flag of the United States if doing so conflicted with their religious beliefs



Cape Cod Times article:

William T. Kerr, is considered by many to be the founder of Flag Day and lobbied most of his life to make it a national holiday.

Born the son of a Civil War veteran in Pittsburgh in 1868, William first proposed the idea for Flag Day after making a speech about the flag in Chicago at the age of 13.

Six years later, he formed the American Flag Day Association of Western Pennsylvania.

While there are several claims to the title of Flag Day founder, William is the only claimant in a photograph of President Harry Truman signing the holiday into law in 1949.

Entire article is here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1649104/posts


43 posted on 06/14/2006 10:06:42 AM PDT by JulieRNR21 (Katherine Harris is 'In It to Win It' .....Go here: http://www.electharris.org/)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]

To: easonc52

What a nice family portrait! Thanks for posting it.


50 posted on 06/14/2006 10:29:47 AM PDT by Mama_Bear (My heroes wear camouflage.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]

To: easonc52

That is one of my favourite photos of the twins.


59 posted on 06/14/2006 11:39:40 AM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]

To: easonc52

Love your # 40!


62 posted on 06/14/2006 11:47:50 AM PDT by Majie Purple
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]

To: easonc52

Awww .... a lovely family photo of our lovely First Family.

Thank you for posting that, Easonc52.


105 posted on 06/14/2006 2:47:25 PM PDT by JustAmy (I wear red every Friday, but I support our Military everyday!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 40 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson