Flag Day - 2011
On June 14, 1777 the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution to adopt the flag of the United States. President Woodrow Wilson established Flag Day by proclamation in 1916. A few commemorative events will take place around the country today, but Flag Day, 2011 is likely to pass largely unnoticed and uncelebrated.
I think about my parents today. They grew up during the Great Depression, and graduated from high school to face the uncertainty and chaos of World War II. So many of that generation fought and died to preserve our freedom. So many of that generation are now gone, but I think of them when I see a flag flying.
Today the flag will fly over courthouses and schools and post offices across the land just as it does every day of the year. Sometimes we take it for granted, but look up at the flag today and take a moment to honor all the people who have stood proudly under that flag, and defended her, and loved her, and fought for her. May she continue to fly over a free people.
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