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The National
Flag
The National Flag of the United
States of Amenca, which is also the
fcnsign and the Merchant Flag, is
known as "The Star-Spangled Ban
ner", "Old Glory", or the “Stars and
istnpes". The stars, white on blue,
In the canton, represent the number
nf States forming the Union; this is
now fifty, in nine alternate rows of
Jsix and five. The thirteen red and
Vvhite stripes in the fly represent
the original states from which the
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Most people in the United States celebrate the 4th of July, but do you
know exactly why the holiday is so important to our country? Imagine how
you would feel if someone older than you (maybe an older sister or brother)
kept telling you what to do all of the time and kept taking more and more
of your allowance. That is how the colonists felt in the years leading up to
1776. Great Britain kept trying to make the colonists follow more rules and
pay higher taxes. People started getting mad and began making plans to
be able to make their own rules. They no longer wanted Great Britain to
be able to tell them what to do, so they decided to tell Great Britain that
they were becoming an independent country. (To be independent means
to take care of yourself, making your own rules and providing for your own
needs.)
The Congress met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and they appointed a
committee (a group of people working together to do a specific job) to write
a formal document that would tell Great Britain that the Americans had
decided to govern themselves. The committee asked Thomas Jefferson to
write a draft (first try) of the document, so he worked for days, in absolute
secret, until he had written a document that he thought said everything
important that the committee had discussed. On June 28,1776, the com
mittee met to read Jefferson's "fair" copy (he put his best ideas together
and wrote them neatly.) They revised (made some changes) the document
and declared their independence on July 2,1776. They officially adopted it
(made it theirs) on July 4,1776. That is why we call it “Independence Day."
Congress ordererfthat all members must sign the Declaration of Indepen
dence and they all began signing the “official" copy on August 2,1776. In
January of the next year, Congress sent signed copies to all of the states.
The Declaration of Independence is more than just a piece of paper. It is
a symbol of our country's independence and commitment to certain ideas.
A symbol is something that stands for something else. Most people can
look at a certain little "swoosh” and know that it stands for "Nike." Well, the
signers of the Declaration of Independence wanted the citizens of the Unit
ed States to have a document that spelled out what was important to our
leaders and citizens. They wanted us to be able to look at the Declaration
of Independence and immediately think of the goals we should always be
wofking for, and about the people who have fought so hard to make these
ideas possible. The people who signed the Declaration risked being hanged
for treason by the leaders in Great Britain. They had to be very brave to
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Union grew.
The U. S. Jack, sometimes called
the “Union" and sometimes even
the “Union Jack", is identical with
the canton. The Warship Pennant
bears seven stars, white on blue, at
the head; for the rest of its length
it is divided horizontally, red over
white, and it ends in a long "swal
low-tail”.
The display of the Stars and
Stripes is strictly regulated by the
Flag Code (See U.S. Flag Eti
quette for some guidelines of the
Code.) Except where for special
reasons, as at the Capital, it is
kept flying day and night, it is flown
only during the hours of daylight.
Solely as a signal of dire distress
is it to be inverted, and no other
flag, except during Divine Service,
the Naval Church Pennant (a blue
Latin Cross placed horizontally on
a white field), may be flown above
it. When the National flag is cere
monially paraded or hoisted or low
ered, all present must face it and
stand to attention: those in uniform
salute, others place the right hand
over the heart, men holding the hat
sign something that
would be considered
a crime! So every
time we look at the
Declaration of Inde
pendence, we should
think about all of the effort and ideas that went into the document, and
about the courage it took for these people to stand up for what they knew
was right -- independenoe!
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in the right hand. Foreigners, how
ever, should stand to attention. On
suitable occasions the Pledge to
the Flag is to be repeated:
1 pledge allegiance to the Flag of
the United States of America and
to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God. indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all."
The Origin
Of The Stars
ana stripes
When the American colonists
rose in armed protest against the
British Government, the emblem
they first adopted signified both
their unity and the loyalty, which
they still retained towards the
Mother Country. Their Great Union
Flag, also known as the Congress
Flag and the Cambridge Flag, bore
thirteen red and white stripes, but
the contemporary British Union
Flag formed its canton. This was
similar to the flag of the East In
dia Company, but whether it was
deliberately adopted from this is
unknown. When, however, the
Americans decided on a complete
severance from Britain, they need
ed a new flag to symbolize their
independence. While retaining the
thirteen stripes in the fly, they re
placed the Union in the canton by
“thirteen stars white on a blue field
representing a new constellation".
The exact arrangement of the stars
in the first American Flag is uncer
tain, but it is reputed to have been
a circle so that one should have no
precedence over the other.
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