Jun
10
2010
Colonial Williamsburg -- Flag Day, June 14, 2010, commemorates the adoption of the United States flag. For others, it also celebrates a new group of American citizens who will recite the Oath of Allegiance and formalize their status as naturalized citizens of the United States of America.
New citizens are invited to comment here on what their American citizenship means to them. Already a citizen? Citizenship isn’t a spectator sport—tell others how you became a citizen and what citizenship means to you.
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From The Virginia Gazette archives ...
PHILADELPHIA, In CONGRESS, JUNE 14, 1777. Resolved, that the FLAG of the United States be THIRTEEN STRIPES alternate red and white; that the union be THIRTEEN STARS white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. Extract from the minutes, CHARLES THOMSON, Sec'ry.
Appropriate today as we observe Flag Day 2010.
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