Flag Day! It doesn’t receive as much attention as Independence Day, but it’s a holiday prompting many Americans and government buildings to display their U.S. flags. The photo above shows a flag flying high next to a competitor at the Morton Loggers Jubilee a few years ago. The photo below features a group of U.S. soldiers at Fort Worden near Port Townsend in the late 1930s. Both photos are found in our State Archives. So how did June 14 become…
(Photo courtesy of Washington State Archives) For many schoolchildren here in Washington, June 14 is the first day of summer vacation or the last day of school. It’s also Flag Day, the holiday when we celebrate the birthday of the U.S. flag. The “Stars and Stripes” originated as a result of a resolution offered by the Marine Committee of the Second Continental Congress at Philadelphia and adopted on June 14, 1777. The resolution read: “Resolved: that the flag of the…
It’s Flag Day. It doesn’t receive as much attention as Independence Day, but it’s a holiday that prompts proud Americans and government buildings to display their U.S. flags. The photo above shows a flag along Capitol Way in Olympia, on the Capitol Campus. So how did June 14 become Flag Day? The “Stars and Stripes” originated as a result of a resolution offered by the Marine Committee of the Second Continental Congress at Philadelphia and adopted on June 14, 1777….