A new constellation

Flag Day

June 14, 2017 North State Journal Staff Features
Eamon Queeney—North State Journal
Soldiers of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division hold a giant American flag as the national anthem plays before the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway

Today is Flag Day which memorializes June 14, 1777, when the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution calling for the creation of the official United States flag. The resolution read “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.”

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