Show FLAG DAY june 14 was flag day it was more it was the one him f dred and sixtieth anniversary of the adoption of the american national emblem by the continental congress on that memorable day of june 1777 I 1 we take said general washington in approving the stars and stripes as the official flag of the united states of america the stars from heaven the red from our mother country separating it by white stripes thus showing that we have separated from her and the white shall go down to posterity representing liberty I 1 the world has never known a banner more humble in its origin yet more daring in its conception and more eloquent in its appeal to the hearts and minds of men the world over i it is the sym symbol bol of the hopes the aspirations the struggles the sufferings the victories the progress in short the very lives of more than one hundred and twenty million people citizenship in the united states means loyalty to the stars and stripes indifference to the national dional emblem is akin to contempt contempt for the colors is the seed plot of treason and the soll soil of anarchy ignorance of it is the mother of vice therefore let each one of us reaffirm our allegiance to our flag by making the following pledge 1 I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states and to the republic for which it stands one e nation indivisible with libe liberty t and justice for all |