On this Memorial Day, in all the normal fun holiday activities planned, I hope people remember the real reason for the holiday; a holiday to remember the men and women who died while serving in our country’s armed forces, like this soldier who died just a few weeks before the end of World War I.
Remembering the Fallen Soldier
In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on that day in 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.
The idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as ‘Flag Birthday’. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as ‘Flag Birthday’, or ‘Flag Day’.
You can spot flags in various places but it isn’t often you see a flag pattern on a barn roof. All I know is that I would not want to have been one of the workers shingling the roof as I probably would have messed up the pattern and it would have been a mess instead of a flag.
Flag Barn
