MOUNT ZION — The annual Flag Day Retirement Ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 14, at the Mount Zion Lions Club Park Foundation Pavilion.
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Historic U.S. flag photos
Historic U.S. flag photos
Flag Day is celebrated every year on June 14 thanks to a proclamation issued by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916. It commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United States, which happened on June 14 in 1777.
In celebration of Flag Day, take a look back at historic photos of the United States flag.
Historic US Flags
From the Old Time Shop in Lenox, Mass. comes this historic flag to be exhibited at the country antiques fair, 71st Regt. Armory, Park Ave. at 34th St. on April 9-14. Discovered in the attic of an old farmhouse in Lee, Mass., the flag once hung from the "Old Liberty Tree" in Boston as a signal to the Sons of Liberty to prepare for action against the English - until cut down by the irate British in 1775. Governor Francis Bernard of the Massachusetts colony writing to Lord Hillsborough on June 18, 1768 mentions that: ?Liberty Tree is a large elm upon which effigies were hung in the time of the Stamp Act, and from whence mobs made their parades. In August, last, they erected a flagstaff which went through the tree and a good deal above the top. Upon this they hoist a flag as a signal for the Sons of Liberty, as they are called. (AP Photo)
Giant American flag
A giant American flag is displayed by the Amoskeag River Mills in Manchester, N.H., on July 4, 1915. The flag measured about 95 feet long, 50 feet high and weighed some 200 lbs.
Star Spangled Banner
An exact duplicate of the huge, original “Star Spangled Banner” made by Mary Pickersgill and flown over Ft. McHenry, September 13 and 14, 1814 was presented to the City of Baltimore by the Master Brewers Association of America. The flag was placed in the memorial. General view showing flag being carried across to the War Memorial Plaza its repository in Baltimore, Md., on Oct. 8, 1941. (AP Photo)
World War II
Torn and battle-stained, this American flag, the first ashore in Morocco at the start of the North African campaign on November 8 is put on display at Washington on March 4, 1943 at the War Department Building. Lt. Dallas Halverstadt points out hole torn by first fire of action at Fedala as the flag was carried ashore on initial landing boat.
Flag Day 1952
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower waves to confetti-tossing crowds lining the parade route to Detroit's City Hall, June 14, 1952, where he made a non-political Flag Day address. A mammoth flag, said to be the largest American flag in the world, covers the front of a large department store in the background. Man in the front of the car is unidentified.
Stars and Stripes
Unfurled against a picturesque English sky, the replica of an earlier ?Stars and Stripes? with its thirteen stars and thirteen bars makes a brave picture in London on March 21, 1943. It will later unfurl permanently in a place of honor at the U.S. Naval Academy.
Four early American flags
These are four of the early American flags shown June 20, 1948, made by Mrs. William H. Jenkins, retired history teacher in Chicago public schools. At top, left is the first flag to fly on New England soil. It is the Raven flag of Leif Ericson. The Raven symbolized the search for land. Top, right, is the cross of St. George, used by John Cabot on his voyages in the 15th century. It was also used by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. At bottom, left, is the "Victory or Death" flag of the Minutemen at Concord on April 19, 1775. And at bottom, right, is the Bennington, Vt., flag flown by New England troops in 1777. The 13-seven-point stars over the ?76? represented the occasion of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
Oldest U.S. flag in existence; Old Glory
The largest collection of historic and priceless American flags ever assembled at one time in one place will be displayed by the American Legion in the Chrysler Salon at New York City between June 8-17 as part of the Legion?s nation-wide ?New Glory for Old Glory? campaign. Shown here looking at what is thought to be the oldest U.S. flag in existence are on June 6, 1955: left to right: Tom F. Morrow, General Manager of Defense Operation Division, Chrysler Corp.; James F. O?Neill, Past National Commander of the American Legion and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. (AP Photo)
First American flag sewing
As Flag Day, June 14, nears, Mrs. Robert Alexander reenacts the sewing of the first American flag in 1776, with an assist from her daughter Nancy, 5. They wear authentic costumes of the period, in the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, Pa. on June 9, 1961. Here, according to tradition which may or may not be based on fact, the widowed Betsy Ross stitched together the first Stars and Stripes.
Grand Union flag
The Grand Union flag, bottom, our first truly national flag, is an evolution from earlier Red Ensigns, top and center shown Dec. 13, 1975. The additions of the words "Liberty and Union" and of the 13 "rebellious stripes" were part of that evolution: the American flag was born as the nation was born, slowly and place by piece. The Grand Union, first run up by John Paul Jones in 1775, continued as the unofficial national flag until Independence.
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Tony Reid
Macon County Courts Reporter
