The stars and stripes fly, in photos, as Flag Day approaches.
The stars and stripes fly, in photos, as Flag Day approachesThe Associated PressThe Associated Press.
More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country’s promise — sometimes dotted along historic graves of military veterans, draped upside down over a protester, or painted on a barn.
Flag Day commemorates the 1777 approval of a national flag design by the Continental Congress. It was established by federal law in 1949 as June 14. Observances preceded that, including in 1891 at a Philadelphia house of Betsy Ross. But the fervor for the flag that exists today has strong roots in the Civil War, when flag bearers were regarded with particularly high honor. Read the rest at breitbart.com.
The flag for many members of the DemocRat-Communist Party is the hammer and sickle.