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Show OLD GLORY IS 179 ! We observe June 14 as Flag Day because it was on that date in 1777 that the Stars and Stripes, by resolution of the Continental Congress, came into being, with "thirteen Stars i and' stripes of alternate red and white, with a union of thirteen stars of white in a blue field, representing the new constellation" in the Western skies. Our flag was first carried by American troops in the Battle of the Brandywine the following September, and tradition says the first Old Glory was made by Betsy Ross, of Philadelphia, at General Washington's request. |