Flag Day -- June 14
What is Flag Day?
Every year a Presidential Proclamation is issued on or around June 14 encouraging
people to recognize Flag Day and National Flag Week.
click here
to read President Barack Obama's 2009 proclamation for Flag Day & National
Flag Week
Why June 14?
On June 14, 1777, John Adams introduced the following resolution before the Continental Congress: "Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation."
Click here or here for a history of Flag Day from the Library of Congress
Information from the National Flag Day Foundation
Information from Ben's Guide from the Government Printing Office
Our Flag through the history
- 1777 -- the Betsy Ross Flag
- The Star Spangled Banner
- View flags through the ages here from 13 to 50 stars
- Works from Jasper Johns
The American Flag in Song
Our Flag and controversy
- Wearing the American Flag on One's Sleve -- an editorial from NPR