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 