Congress adopted a resolution, when John Adams proposed a new flag, the "thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation." The official history of our flag begins on June 14, 1777. Aspects of the flag are the stars, taken from heaven, the stripes, red from our mother country(Britain), separated by the white for Liberty.

In 1818 Congress enacted a statue finally fixing the style, and pattern of the general flag of the country as we know it today. In due respect it should not be hoisted before sunrise nor allowed to remain up after sunset (without specific lighting). Flag Day honors the Stars and Stripes as our national flag by the Second Continental Congress on June 14, 1777, symbolizing the new nation, the United States of America. The first national observance of Flag Day came June 14, 1877, the centennial of the original resolution. In the decades that followed many individuals and organizations pushed to have Flag Day observed.

One individual, Bernard J. Cigrand, waged a lifelong crusade for National Flag Day observance. A Wisconsin school teacher, he kept a 38 star flag 10 inches high mounted in a bottle on his desk. In 1885, Cigrand observed a first Flag Day birth with his pupils. The pause for the Pledge of Allegiance is for all Americans everywhere, on June 14, at 7:00 p.m., to simultaneously say the thirty-one words of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag. Congress recognizes this (PL. 99 - 54), as part of the official ceremonies.

FLAG DAY the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777 - was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30, 1916. Flag Day was celebrated in many communities for years after President Wilson's proclamation. It was not until August 3, 1949, that President Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14 as National Flag Day.