Show X 19 4 X A nei s by JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN UNE 14 la is flag day the day of the oldest flag the flag that has haa never known defeat the star spangled banner the stars and I 1 stripes old glory 1 yes the oldest flag so old that 1025 1125 la is the centennial of paul reveres Re verea ride and of lexington and concord of the capture of ticonderoga by allen alien and arnold of the second continental congress of the mecklenburg declaration of daniel boones Boones boonesborough borough of bunker hill of tile the inking command conini and by gen george washington of the continental army of the lie making of esek hopkins commander in thief of the file navy na of tile of boston no 1925 11 is not tile ol of lie he flag that Is for 1 1927 T but ahat of that the flag Is 19 whit we leave love made inside it anil and the flag stands for bunker hill just os as surely as it stands for yorktown and fort mchenry and Iop terey and gettysburg and sun san junn juan hill and chateau thierry Th lerry crry so there all be many aa ilag days in 1925 june 14 Is flag fla day because june 14 1777 the second et con COD gross resolved that the flag of the thirteen united states ile be thirteen iUen stripes alt altermatt ernatt red and white that tile union bo be their teen stars white in 11 blue bille held field representing tile he new that was the flag under which independence was won if there were american lags flags flow down tit at lexington kind and concord they were vere tile the flags of the local at bunker hill was flown the new england lag flag a blue ground one corner quartered by tit the red cross of st george with a pine tree in one section and various regimental reg lags flags the union flag that gen george washington raised january 1 1770 over oer his headquarters tit at cambridge was nade made up of thirteen red and white stripes quartered with the he british union jack in token of the fact that the colonials Colon fals were lighting fightlin figh tin tor for their rights as englishmen whether the flag of june 14 1777 was waa designed by betsy ross under direction oi or by francala hopkinson delegate to congress front from new jersey a band of patriotic young 0 ng women taa up di dresses esses to ti make tile the flag milt was thrown to the wind ind july 4 1777 1717 over portsmouth harbor maine the flag received its baptism of ike fire august 3 1777 when st leger with british and indians unsuccessfully laid siege to fort stanwix rome N Y september 4 1777 capt thomas thompson ran up the flag on tile the raleigh upon going into action on the bagh seas congress in 1704 made a blunder it ordered the addition of two stars and two stripes to the flag to mark the admission to the union of vermont and kentucky in 1818 it eliminated the two stripes and decreed the addition ota ofa ot of a star for each new state now the new constellation con stats fists of 48 five pointed stars stara in ciz horizontal and eight vertical rows rowa each 1116 star with one point upward it I 1 Is generally accepted that the whitall az signifies purity and innocence tite the red strength and valor and the blue vigilance perseverance and justice the star spangled banner was first so called by francis scott key in the star spangled banner which by common consent lins lias come to be regarded by the american people as the national air of the lie united states of america congress lins ahna never so designated it or tiny other air but army and navy regulations so recognize it the air Is an old one tile the poem was wag britten during the lie of if 1812 in the night hours of september 13 1814 aeillo ney key was watching the lie bombardment by tile lie british fleet of fort in maryland the llie of 1814 consisted of expeditions from tile lio north till anil south sir george provost cornin corning coining ing from canada and a combined fleet and army coming coining from bermuda under admiral Adin lial cochrane ini ano maj gen robert ros ilesi iooss ruptured captured washington vas hington and burned the capitol Cupl lol thereupon the lie british moved loved upon baltimore but tile the hini roice roi ce of well was beaten off find general iooss bluss was killed the fleet bombarded fort mchenry Mcl lenry unsuccessfully and departed the congress of 1914 nude appropriation atlon for a handsome monument to key ilda to the he soldiers and sailors who beat off the british army end and fleet tills monument ani its dedicated jure jura 14 1922 president alade the lie dedicatory address find and salil said in port part hero the patriotic sons gons of the early re republic publio crushed one of the moo moat t ambitious ever aimed against our nation here luring during the rage of combat was as born the swelling anthem of american patriotism it la jig wholly fetting that nag flag day 8 should hould be chosen for or this commemoration and rededication because our hymn or of patriotism Is in an apostrophe I 1 it 11 flag we ie loe yea lea it la Is apostrophe and invocation as aa well ell born of a patriotic and poetic soul in the travail of a sublimely heroic night an american citizenship of th high and simple falth falln ot of francis scott key a etame for defense and a nd no less leas devoted in meeting tho problems of peace will add to uie tide luster of the hanner banner he ha so BO proudly acclaimed every littering glittering star Is fixed every worthwhile worth north while procession la is the more impressive for its bearing every passion for country IV Is refined by its ita unfolding unfold ling on ships of mercy or vessels of war in the armed camp or at the memorials ot of peace in rejoicing procession or flying from f rom the astaff over the simple temples of tile the schooling youth of Arne america TICa everywhere it pleases tho tha eye and stars the and reassures the heart boul until we sing in all confidence with the poet patriot the star spangled banner in triumph shall wave oer the land of the free and the tha home of tho the brave now the lie scene of this glorious ale vl tory and song la is further to be honored the sixty eighth congress in its closing days passed an net act providing for the restoration of fort mchenry and its ita permanent preservation and perpetual national kg as a national park memorial shrine as the birt birthplace bRICO of the immortal star spangled banner nee and made an appropriation apar opria tion of for the purpose congress has recognized the one hm dred and fiftieth anniversary of the battle of bunker by providing for the united states bunker mil hill sesquicentennial commission of 11 members 8 appointed appoint ed by the president 4 by the ho president of the senate and 4 by the speaker of tile house and tile the appropriation of in connection therewith 1 and bunker IP worth celebrating in it was the he first little of the revolution I 1 ol the americana lost it but if ever eer 9 defeat was a clory it was bunker 1111 and alint hot a fight it was waa with atti till nil boston on the housetops to it I 1 you remember of course the sequence so of those first sensational days of actual hostilities in it wm was tile the night of the of april that paul revere and william dawes rode roda from boston to warn arn tile the minute men in advance of the british expedition tion the next day took place the lexington and concord affairs and the fie militia chased the s I 1 ack into roston boston tile the morning of april 20 0 found boston practically in a state of provincial troops kept coming in end and by june 10 16 there hero were thousands behind entrenchments entrench menta all about boston the morning of june 17 the very day that lint t washington was appointed commander in chief by lie file second continental congress in philadelphia the astounded british in boston discovered about one thousand americana american digging themselves in on breeds hill on the charlestown Charles town penin peninsula tula which overlooked the north part of the city british vessels immediately opened fire and gage mustered troops for attack at noon the british moved across to tho the peninsula in barges under gen william ilowe at 3 p m m under cover of a cannonade the british attacked in force expecting an easy victory the americans held their ire fire until the british were within a few rods their volleys were then so deadly that tile lie british veterans broke and ran reinforced by fresh troops the british attacked a second time under cover of the smoke from charlestown Charles town set on alre for the purpose again the deadly volleys again a disorderly retreat to the shore A third attack again a deadly volley or two but this time there was no british retreat for the american ammunition was exhausted followed then a close and fearful hand to hand band fight and in the end the americans retreated from the he field so the british won at a cost coat of almost r v hundred officers and about 1400 men killed and wounded the american loss in killed wounded and captured yaa it was wa an amerl ameri can victory in defeat banker HIU destroyed forever the bugbear ot of the invincibility of the regulars regu regal lara larL hence our american baying A dunker hill defeat |