Flag Day is this Saturday Saturday.
There was a time in our history
when our flag was empty of experience. It had the symbolism of a united people
and the expectation of greatness, but we were a young country and as yet had
little collective history.
The United States wasn’t even a
year old when Continental Congress adopted the design on June 14th, 1777. But
now as we celebrate Flag Day this week, we remember that our flag is much more
than red and white cloth stripes and symbolic stars in blue.
Our flag is everything that’s ever
happened to this country and everything we’ve ever done. It’s victory and
defeat. It’s protests and pageantry. It’s honor with humility and shame with
remorse. It’s living and dying for principle.
Above all our flag is the waving symbol
for all to see our passion for liberty, our sustaining belief in the democratic
ideal, and our willingness to spend life and treasure for freedom for all.
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