“In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.”
-Barack Obama
“Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”
-Abraham Lincoln.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal."
-Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There has been much politicization of the American Flag, but it is encouraging to begin to see the flag again representing the country more as a whole. Sadly, we are a nation as frayed as a flag damaged by the fury of a hurricane. At 72, I'm of a generation that was surrounded by old school displays of patriotism, but well aware of the changes needed in this nation to make it equal for all under the stars and stripes. In that spirit, my collage combines flags displayed in Massachusetts
and Maine through the years.
In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777, by resolution of the Second Continental Congress. The Flag Resolution, passed on June 14, 1777, stated: “Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
For the Record,
This day came in with sun and clouds. The humidity is high and we've now had one band of heavy rain before noon.
I retired from public school teaching after happily spending twenty eight years playing in Kindergarten. Now I fill my days watching cat antics, taking endless...
