It was on this date in 1777 that the Stars and Stripes was adopted
as the official flag of the United States of America.
The first Flag Day observance was not held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes on June 14, 1877, as some sites might tell you, but read on my friend, this seems to the real story:
In 1861, at the start of the Civil War, a man named George Morris persuaded his city of Hartford, Conn., to undertake a patriotic celebration on behalf of the Union. But the concept didn’t catch on, there or elsewhere.
Two decades later, in 1885, a 19-year-old Waubeka schoolteacher named Bernard Cigrand plunked a small flag into an inkwell on his desk and assigned his students to write essays on patriotism. Later he traveled the country to promote respect for the flag, becoming president of the American Flag Day Association.
In 1916, Cigrand, after years of toil, got President Woodrow Wilson, on May 30, 1916, to issue a proclamation calling for a nation wide observance of Flag Day.
In 1949, President Harry Truman signed an Act Of Congress designating the 14th day of June every year as National Flag Day.
So now you know. (You may now be seated and put your hat back on.)
But before you go –
June 14, 1954 –
At the Lincoln Memorial, President Dwight Eisenhower signs a law inserting the words “under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance. Eisenhower declares: “From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty.” Precisely which Almighty is left to the listener’s imagination.
This year, I’d like to think that Ike was thinking about the deity Tu’er shen..
The Haus of Dcaligari 