Don’t Forget Flag Day

A good reason to own a flag is so that you can defy moonbats by flying it on flag holidays like today, which is Flag Day. It is not an official holiday except in Pennsylvania, but, it has been with us for some time. Moonbattery.com sponsor Ammo.com provides a brief history.

[The] first “official” observance of modern Flag Day was initiated [in 1885] by schoolteacher Bernard J. Cigrand at the Stony Hill School in Waubeka, Wisconsin. Cigrand sought to promote patriotism and a respect for the American flag. He was the first person to choose June 14th, the day that the original Betsy Ross flag was adopted as the official flag of the United States.

That’s the sort of cause educators took up back then. Going back to that time from now would be like sticking your foot into a bucket of cool water after someone gave you a hotfoot.

Cigrand was an evangelist for the establishment of a Flag Day, and of American nationalism and patriotism in general. He toured the country agitating in favor of the establishment of a national day honoring the American flag. After an 1888 speech to a group called the Sons of America, the organization founded a magazine called American Standard, which promoted reverence for symbols of the United States. Cigrand was made editor-in-chief of this magazine. The culmination of his efforts was the 1894 celebration, which included over 300,000 schoolchildren.

Nowadays, instead of teaching kids why they should honor the flag, teachers focus on promoting leftist politics and sexual deviancy. But maybe this is a phase we will pass through, so long as we keep countermoonbattery alive.

After Cigrand created Flag Day almost single-handedly, others kept it going and helped it to grow. Unsurprisingly, moonbats attempted to corrupt it:

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to rebrand Flag Day as United Flag Day, or United Nations Day, during the Second World War. This got little traction outside of New York City, where the day was celebrated between 1942 and 1944.

If you have a flag, fly it, because contra FDR, Flag Day signifies the opposite of globalism. It gives us a chance to salute what Old Glory represents: limited government and the American nation.

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