{"id":251,"date":"2013-06-14T16:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T20:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/?p=251"},"modified":"2024-12-12T10:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T15:11:06","slug":"flags-saluted-on-flag-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/flags-saluted-on-flag-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Flags saluted on Flag Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1861, the year the Civil War<\/a> began and with the pivotal battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg still two years in the future, the citizens of Hartford, Connecticut, decorated their businesses and homes with flags in a colorful display of patriotism.<\/p>\n

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The occasion was Flag Day, celebrated on June 14 because, on that date in 1777, the Continental Congress had formalized the design of the American flag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hartford\u2019s citizens thus established themselves as the progenitors of all subsequent Flag Day observances. In a resolution offered by a state senator in 1862 and reported in The Hartford Courant, the flag was declared to be \u201cdear to us\u201d as a \u201csymbol of the Union which our fathers established and which we have so long loved.\u201d<\/p>\n

The banner was even more precious, the senator continued, given \u201cthe toils and sacrifices which we are\u2026called upon to undergo\u2026to preserve the union of the States.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that in mind, he urged the people of Connecticut to celebrate the city\u2019s second Flag Day with special enthusiasm, and they exuberantly followed through. As the Courant recorded, \u201cThere was an unusually large amount of bunting displayed\u2026from the various residences and stores of our city.\u201d<\/p>\n

The paper described how one store was \u201chandsomely dressed in red, white and blue,\u201d while another building \u201chad streamers\u2026from the top of the house to the street below.\u201d A third company outdid those two by crowding its windows with flags of many sizes, outlining its doors with more and suspending still more from ropes that cascaded from the roof to the street.<\/p>\n

What began in Connecticut spread \"\"across the U.S. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson urged all Americans to mark Flag Day. However, it did not become an official national observance until 1949, when Congress passed \u2013 and President Harry Truman signed \u2013 a bill creating National Flag Day.<\/p>\n

In 2012, President Obama issued a Flag Day proclamation that said: \u201cFor over 200 years, our flag has proudly represented our Nation and our ideals at home and abroad.\u00a0It has billowed above monuments and memorials, flown beside the halls of government, stood watch over our oldest institutions, and graced our homes and storefronts\u2026.It will forever remain an emblem of the ideals that inspired our great Nation:\u00a0 liberty, democracy, and the enduring freedom to make of our lives what we will.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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