Flag Day 2019

I am considerably more patriotic than I was in my earlier adult years.

When I was a child I was blindly patriotic. My awareness of world affairs has tempered my adult attitudes and I must confess a somewhat tainted position on patriotism due to my familiars as well as the realization that "friends" aren't always really "friends" ...

Now, with the advent of the Obama debacle I am more attuned with that which is real and that which is not and I try to be there for my country in spirit and person.

Today is Flag Day — celebrated each June 14 in commemoration of the adoption of the flag of the United States on June 14, 1777 by the Second Continental Congress.

It has undergone a bit of evolution with President Woodrow Wilson issuing a proclamation establishing June 14 as Flag Day. On August 3, 1949 National Flag Day was established by an act of Congress.

It is not an "official" federal holiday.