{"id":14730,"date":"2026-06-12T23:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=14730"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:01:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:01:48","slug":"flag-day-is-sunday-the-stars-and-stripes-is-250-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconvalleymovingpost.com\/?p=14730","title":{"rendered":"Flag Day is Sunday: The Stars and Stripes is 250 years old"},"content":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re a grand old flag<\/h4>\n

Sunday, June 14 is Flag Day, and the first designs for the Stars and Stripes began in 1776. Congress adopted the red, white and blue flag with 13 stars June 14, 1777. President Harry S. Truman designated the day as National Flag Day in 1949.<\/p>

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When the Thirteen Colonies were seceding from the British, there became a necessity for a flag to symbolize the patriot cause and rally individuals for the Revolution.<\/p>\n

The first official flag was called the Continental Colors, also known as the Grand Union Flag, which consisted of thirteen red and white stripes and the United Kingdom\u2019s flag in the upper-left-hand corner, also known as the canton. It was the same design as the flag for the British East India Company that flew from 1701 to 1801. However, the British East India Company\u2019s flag ranged from nine to 13 red and white stripes and was usually only flown when it was sailing in the Indian Ocean. The Continental Army flew the flag until 1777.<\/p>\n

1776 flag<\/h4>\n

A popular belief is that Elizabeth Griscom, a Philadelphia flag maker who was also known as Betsy Ross, sewed the first official flag in June 1776. The legend goes that George Washington, Robert Morris and George Ross came to Betsy Ross\u2019s house to discuss the design of a national flag. The original design had six-sided stars representing the 13 colonies on a field of blue with red and white stripes. She suggested a five-pointed star. The three men, amazed at how quickly she could cut the five-pointed stars, assigned her with the task of sewing the flag.<\/p>\n

This belief originated with William J. Canby, Ross\u2019 grandson. He presented this idea to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1870 and stated that his aunt Clarissa Sydney Wilson, one of Ross\u2019s daughters, told him the story in 1857. Ross had died twenty years prior. Today, there is no conclusive evidence supporting or denying this claim.<\/p>\n

Francis Hopkinson, signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey, claims that he designed the \u201cStars and Stripes\u201d that was designated as the national flag. He was head of the Marine Committee, that had been using the red, white and blue guidelines for flags since July 4, 1776. His design may have been the six-pointed star design.<\/p>\n

There are no records to show Hopkinson was the single creator of the design.<\/p>\n

On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the first Flag Resolution. This resolution officially adopted the Stars and Stripes as the national flag and states:<\/p>

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\u201cResolved that the flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white, that the Union be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation.\u201d<\/p>\n

The current 50-star flag is the 27th version of the national flag.<\/p>\n

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Oh, say can you see<\/h4>\n

Here\u2019s how our national anthem was inspired by the flag flying at Fort McHenry during the War of 1812.<\/p>\n

Through the perilous fight?<\/h4>\n

The star-spangled banner (pictured right) that inspired Francis Scott Key to write what became our national anthem may not have flown through the night. Experts say the massive, 30-by-42-foot flag was taken down when it rained because the soaked woolen banner would be too heavy for the flagpole to hold. During the battle and stormy night, a 17-by-25-foot flag flew in its place. The larger flag was raised after the storm passed in the morning. The smaller flag is lost.<\/p>\n

The Star Spangled Banner flag is kept at the Smithsonian Institution.<\/p>\n

Beginning in Baltimore<\/h4>\n

Mary Pickersgill, a 37-year-old widow made the flags for Fort McHenry: She was a ship and signal flag maker. She worked seven weeks with her 13-year-old daughter, Caroline; two nieces, 13-year-old Eliza Young and 15-year-old Margaret Young; a 13-year-old African-American indentured servant, Grace Wisher; and possibly her mother, Rebecca Young, who had taught her the trade.<\/p>\n

They laid the whole flag out on the expansive floor of a brewery near Mrs. Pickersgill\u2019s Pratt Street house. The flags were finished on August 19, 1813.<\/p>\n

The perilous fight<\/h4>\n

The English and French were at war since the early 1800s in Europe. The U.S. was brought into the war when the British refused to stop kidnapping U.S. sailors and forcing them into the British Navy. The U.S. declared war on Great Britain in 1812. The British had captured and burned Washington, D.C. then sailed toward Baltimore, Md.<\/p>\n

The Battle of Baltimore saw the British bombard Fort McHenry for 25 hours beginning on Sept. 13, 1814. Estimates have 1,500 to 1,800 bombs being fired. 400 of them fell within the fort\u2019s walls. The U.S. Army had held and stopped the British advance. There were 24 U.S. soldiers wounded and four dead.<\/p>

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Inspiring the poet<\/h4>\n

Francis Scott Key was a Baltimore lawyer and aboard a truce ship trying to negotiate the release of an American held prisoner. The British detained him during the battle. The next morning when he saw the U.S. flag still flying he was inspired to write his poem, \u201cThe Star Spangled Banner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Familiar tune<\/h4>\n

Francis Scott Key intended his poem to be sung to the tune \u201cTo Anacreon in Heaven.\u201d Key wrote a poem in 1805 to the same tune. The music was originally written in England around 1775 and played in pubs and clubs. The original song was about a 6th-century Greek poet named Anacreon who wrote about drinking and womanizing.<\/p>\n

Before \u201cThe Star-Spangled Banner\u201d was adopted as the national anthem in 1931, \u201cYankee Doodle Dandy\u201d was used as a traditional ceremonial song sometimes.<\/p>\n

The national anthem has a total of four verses, but we only sing the first.<\/p>\n

The original garrison flag (30 feet by 42 feet) covers about one-quarter of a basketball court.<\/p>\n

Meaningful colors<\/h4>\n

There is no congressional documentation that states the colors of the flag have official meaning, but historians trace each color to have symbolic representation.<\/p>\n

Perseverance (blue)<\/p>\n

Valor (red)<\/p>\n

Liberty or purity (white)<\/p>\n

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In 1795, Congress added two stripes and two stars to represent new states Kentucky and Vermont.<\/p>\n

In 1818, Congress decreed stars should be added for each state but that the number of stripes should be capped at 13.<\/p>\n

President William Howard Taft issued an executive order in 1912 that established a precise arrangement of the then-48 stars.<\/p>\n

As Alaska and Hawaii neared statehood, President Dwight Eisenhower solicited opinions for a design for the 50-star flag.<\/p>\n

Students across the country were challenged by their teachers to come up with a format for the stars. 16-year-old Robert G. Heft of Lancaster, Ohio submitted his design.<\/p>\n

Heft\u2019s teacher, Stanley Pratt, complained that Robert\u2019s work was \u201cunoriginal\u201d and based too strongly on the existing 48-star flag. He gave Robert a B-minus on the assignment. But Robert passed his design along to his congressman and his design was eventually selected by Eisenhower.<\/p>\n

Pratt changed Robert\u2019s grade to an A.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a Grand Old Flag\u201d was written by George M. Cohan for his 1906 stage musical \u201cGeorge Washington, Jr.\u201d The song was introduced to the public in the play\u2019s first act on opening night, Feb. 6, 1906, in New York\u2019s Herald Square Theater. It was the first song from a musical to sell over a million copies of sheet music.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a grand old flag lyrics<\/h4>\n

There\u2019s a feeling comes a-stealing<\/p>\n

And it sets my brain a-reeling<\/p>\n

When I listen to the music of a military band<\/p>\n

Any tune like Yankee Doodle<\/p>\n

Simply sets me off my noodle<\/p>\n

It\u2019s that patriotic something<\/p>\n

That no one can understand<\/p>\n

We love song in the land of cotton<\/p>\n

Melody untiring<\/p>\n

Ain\u2019t that inspiring?<\/p>\n

Hurrah! Hurrah! we\u2019ll join the jubilee<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s going some<\/p>\n

For the Yankees, by gum!<\/p>\n

Red, White and Blue<\/p>\n

I am for you<\/p>\n

Honest, you\u2019re a grand old flag<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a grand old flag<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a high-flying flag<\/p>\n

And forever in peace may you wave<\/p>\n

You\u2019re the emblem of<\/p>\n

The land I love<\/p>\n

The home of the free and the brave<\/p>\n

Every heart beats true<\/p>\n

Under Red, White and Blue<\/p>\n

Where there\u2019s never a boast or brag<\/p>\n

But should auld acquaintance be forgot<\/p>\n

Keep your eye on that grand old flag<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a grand old flag<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a high-flying flag<\/p>\n

And forever in peace may you wave<\/p>\n

You\u2019re the emblem of<\/p>\n

The land I love<\/p>\n

The home of the free and the brave<\/p>\n

Every heart beats true<\/p>\n

Under Red, White and Blue<\/p>\n

Where there\u2019s never a boast or brag<\/p>\n

But should auld acquaintance be forgot<\/p>\n

Keep your eye on that grand old flag<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a cranky hanky panky<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a dead square honest Yankee<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m mighty proud of that old flag<\/p>\n

That flies for Uncle Sam<\/p>\n

Though I don\u2019t believe in raiding<\/p>\n

Every time I see it waving<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a chill runs up my back<\/p>\n

That makes me glad I\u2019m what I am<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve no flags but a million soldiers<\/p>\n

That\u2019s if we should need \u2019em<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll fight for freedom<\/p>\n

Hurrah! Hurrah! for every Yankee bar<\/p>\n

And old G.A.R<\/p>\n

Every stripe, every star<\/p>\n

Red, White and Blue<\/p>\n

Hats off to you<\/p>\n

Honest, you\u2019re a grand old flag<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a grand old flag<\/p>\n

You\u2019re a high-flying flag<\/p>\n

And forever in peace may you wave<\/p>\n

You\u2019re the emblem of<\/p>\n

The land I love<\/p>\n

The home of the free and the brave<\/p>\n

Every heart beats true<\/p>\n

Under Red, White and Blue<\/p>\n

Where there\u2019s never a boast or brag<\/p>\n

But should auld acquaintance be forgot<\/p>\n

Keep your eye on that grand old flag<\/p>\n

Source: Musixmatch<\/em><\/p>\n

Songwriters: George Cohan \/ Bryce Inman<\/em><\/p>\n

Sources: Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Boyhood Home, Smithsonian, American Battlefield Trust, National Archives, PBS, Historic Philadelphia Inc.<\/em><\/p>

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