When the Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, there was no unified army, and no single flag. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the US Army. Two years later on the same date, in 1777, the resolution was passed that “the flag of the United States be 13 stripes, alternate red and white,” and that “the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.”
In 1885, a small-town Wisconsin schoolteacher originated the idea for Flag Day, which was officially established by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916. In the 1950’s, when Alaska and Hawaii were nearing official statehood, a 17-year-old high school student from Ohio disassembled a flag and re-sewed it, with the stars in the proportional pattern we know today. His congressman presented the flag to President Eisenhower, who selected the design and raised it for the first time on the Fourth of July in 1960.
We invite you to honor America by waving the flag on flag day, June 14.
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