{"id":52640,"date":"2014-06-12T13:08:16","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T20:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=52640"},"modified":"2014-06-16T08:02:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T15:02:26","slug":"flag-day-event-this-saturday-at-poncitlan-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/06\/12\/flag-day-event-this-saturday-at-poncitlan-square\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag Day event this Saturday at Poncitlan Square"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About 50 residents attended last year’s Flag Day ceremony.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PALMDALE \u2013 The Antelope Valley Service Organization Association (AVSOA) in collaboration with the City of Palmdale will hold its annual Flag Day Ceremony on Saturday, June 14 at 11 a.m. at the gazebo in Poncitl\u00e1n Square, 38315 9th St. East in Palmdale.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bobby Breech, Chairman of AVSOA will serve as Master of Ceremonies.<\/p>\n

The ceremony will begin with a special invocation, which will be followed by the pledge of allegiance, \u201cNational Anthem\u201d and singing of \u201cYou’re a Grand Old Flag.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on this event, call Bobby Breech at 661-992-4949.<\/p>\n

The Origins of Flag Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\"US<\/a>\u201cThe flag of the United States shall be of thirteen stripes of alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white in a blue field, representing the new constellation. \u201c<\/em><\/h4>\n

This was the resolution adopted by the Continental Congress on June 14, 1777. The resolution was made following the report of a special committee which had been assigned to suggest the flag\u2019s design.<\/p>\n

A flag of this design was first carried into battle on September 11, 1777, in the Battle of the Brandywine. The American flag was first saluted by foreign naval vessels on February 14, 1778, when the Ranger, bearing the Stars and Stripes and under the command of Captain Paul Jones, arrived in a French port. The flag first flew over a foreign territory in early 1778 at Nassau, Bahama Islands, where Americans captured a British fort.<\/p>\n

Observance of the adoption of the flag was not soon in coming, however. Although there are many claims to the first official observance of Flag Day, all but one took place more than an entire century after the flag\u2019s adoption in 1777.<\/p>\n

The first claim was from a Hartford, Conn., celebration during the first summer of 1861. In the late 1800s, schools all over the United States held Flag Day programs to contribute to the Americanization of immigrant children, and the observance caught on with individual communities.<\/p>\n

The most recognized claim, however, comes from New York. On June 14, 1889, Professor George Bolch, principal of a free kindergarten for the poor of New York City, had his school hold patriotic ceremonies to observe the anniversary of the Flag Day resolution. This initiative attracted attention from the State Department of Education, which arranged to have the day observed in all public schools thereafter.<\/p>\n

Soon the state legislature passed a law making it the responsibility of the state superintendent of public schools to ensure that schools hold observances for Lincoln\u2019s Birthday, Washington\u2019s Birthday, Memorial Day and Flag Day. In 1897, the governor of New York ordered the displaying of the flag over all public buildings in the state, an observance considered by some to be the first official recognition of the anniversary of the adoption of the flag outside of schools.<\/p>\n

Another claim comes from Philadelphia. In 1893, the Society of Colonial Dames succeeded in getting a resolution passed to have the flag displayed on all of the city\u2019s public buildings. Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin and the president of the Colonial Dames of Pennsylvania, that same year tried to get the city to call June 14 Flag Day. Resolutions by women were not granted much notice, however, and it was not until May 7, 1937, that Pennsylvania became the first state to establish the June 14 Flag Day as a legal holiday. Flag Day is a nationwide observance today, but Pennsylvania is the only state that recognizes it as a legal holiday.<\/p>\n

Both President Wilson, in 1916, and President Coolidge, in 1927, issued proclamations asking for June 14 to be observed as the National Flag Day. But it wasn\u2019t until August 3, 1949, that Congress approved the national observance, and President Harry Truman signed it into law.<\/p>\n

(Flag Day history U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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