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Show SOUTHERN UTAH NEWS Opinion 5 WEDNESDAY JUNE 10, 1998 these words? By Barbara Pyles The idea of celebrating the Flag Oh what a thrill it is to see the Driver was slow to catch on. On June (a) Captain Stephen American Flag silhouetted (b) A soldier in Washingtons 14, in 1889, George Balch, prinagainst the peaceful skies. But army. cipal of a school in New York how do we much know about Francis Scott Key. (c) just City held patriotic exercises on Find our flag. Wanna out? Just that day. Not long after that the 9. What president of the United State Legislature passed a law take the following quiz. States officially established Flag that read: 1. When is Flag Day? Day? (a) President Woodrow Wil- It shall be the duty of the State (a) Any day the flag is flown 14 son (b) June Superintendent ofPublic Schools (c) June 21 (b) President John Quincy to prepare a program making 2. Why is that day set aside? (a) Its the flags birthday (b) Because everyone needs another Holiday (c) So we can have a parade 3. How old is the American Flag? (a) 105 years (b) 200 years (c) As old as our nation t Adams (c) President Harry S. Truman. 10. Who placed the American Flag on the moon? (a) Edwin Buzz Aldrin (b) Michael Collins (c) Neil Armstrong. 11. Every day thousands of school children recite The Pledge of Allegiance. Can You? 4. How many stars and stripes 12. What original states do the 13 stripes represent? are on the flag? (a) 48 stars 12 stripes Answers: (b) 50 stars 13 stripes 1. (b) On June 14, 1777, the (c) 49 stars 13 stripes Continental Congress adopted a 5. What do the white stripes resolution declaring: That the flag of the United States be of stand for? thirteen stripes of alternate red, (a) Humanity and faith thir(b) Liberty and equality for all. and white, with a union of teen blue white in stars of a field, (c) Loyalty and faith. representing the new constella6. Who designed the first Ameri- can Flag? (a) Its not absolutely certain. (b) Francis Hopkinson (c) George Washington . tion. 2. (a) Its the flags birthday. 7. Who sewed the first American Flag? (a) Betsy Ross. (b) No one knows for sure. (c) Mrs. George Washington. 8. Old Glory Who first used Flag Continued from Page 4 ' tions exploiting high tech lobbying, spending millions pressuring lawmakers and pander-- , ing to a false patriotism, should rethink their priorities and not succumb to the temptation of this golden calf. We must not delegate to government our responsibility of citizenship lest we endanger our most precious freedoms. Teaching in the home and in our schools the principles evident in our Constitution and Bill of Rights requires responsibility and sacrifice. That energy enhances pride in our heritage. Respect for our beautiful flag can only come from the heai ts of the people. Attempts to bestow honor by government decree upon the flag are idle myths and ,must not prevail. f Cteulbnew . CUSB1 committee led by George Wash- lina, and Rhode Island. ington asked Betsy Ross to sew and design a national flag. Many Flag etiquette: No other flag historians doubt the story is true. or pennant should be placed above or, if on the same level, to 8. (a) In 1831 Captain Stephen the right of the flag of the United Driver, a shipmaster of Salem, States of America, except during Massachusettses, was aboard church services conducted by his brig the Charles Doggett. naval chaplains at sea... for perHis friends gave him a flag with sonnel of the Navy. ..when the stars. As the ban- church pennant may be flown twenty-fou- r ner opened to the ocean breeze, above the flag. (From Everyday special provision for observance he exclaimed Old Glory! Flag Etiquette, Internet) in the public schools of Lincoln's 9. (a) Flag Day was officially More Flag etiquette: It is the Birthday, Washingtons Birthestablished the Proclamation universal custom to display the by day, Memorial Day and Flag of Woodrow President Wilson flag only from sunrise to sunset Day. on May 30, 1916. On Aug. 3, on buildings and on stationary 3. (c) As old as our nation. The 1949, President Truman signed flagstaffs in the open. However, flag was born on June 14, 1777 an Act of Congress designating when a patriotic effect is desired, when the Continental Congress, June 14 of every year as Na- the flag may be displayed twenty-fou- r hours a day ifproperly illusitting in Philadelphia, passed tional Flag Day. Act. minated during the hours ofdarkthe first Flag 10. (c) On July 20, 1969 Neil ness. 4. (b) The 50 stars represent the Armstrong was the first man to Did you know that a new star 50 states. The 13 stripes repre- walk on the moon. is added to the flag on the July sent the original 13 states. The 11. I pledge allegiance to the 4th following the entry of that state of Utah was the 45th star. flag of the United States of state into the Union. 5. (b) The white stripes stand America and to the Republic for for liberty and equality for all. which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty 6. (a) No one knows with ab- and justice for all. solute certainty. However, 12. Delaware, Pennsylvania, some historians are quite sure New that Congressman Francis Jersey, Georgia, ConnectiHopkinson designed the first cut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire, flag. 7. (b) According to legend, a Vermont, New York, North Caro CIS your fiird s I FREE Rotation Tires Auto & Light Truck Huge Selection! So. 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