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By Don Worthington | Rock Hill Herald
YORK COUNTY –
Today is Flag Day, a single of twenty days Congress says a American dwindle should be flown.
The jubilee traces a bieing born to a Second Continental Congress, which, upon Jun 14, 1777, upheld a fortitude which a dwindle of these United States “be thirteen stripes, swap red as well as white” as well as “the kinship be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a latest constellation.”
Various states distinguished a Flag Day, though it wasn’t until 1916 which President Woodrow Wilson admitted a inhabitant Flag Day. And it wasn’t until 1949 which President Harry Truman set in reserve Jun fourteen as a Flag Day.
For many, this is a day for a undiluted picture of a flag, a single kindly rippling in a zephyr with extended stripes as well as splendid stars. It is a dwindle once done by a thousands during a former Rock Hill Printing & Finishing Co. as well as after Sept. 11, 2001, during Tico Industries in Lancaster.
It is an picture of majesty, an picture of a grand aged flag.
But a unlawful images, what nation thespian Johnny Cash called a husky banner, have been because you applaud Flag Day.
These unlawful images have been mostly prisoner during times of conflict, display America during a most appropriate as well as a worst.
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