Dear KKIM Family,
I just got this note from Former Sgt. of the New Mexico State Police Mike Gibson who reminds us we have heroes today……..
Wesley Cox is such a good young man, I have known him since he was a kid. Thanks for the story on Andy Tingwall wow, what an everyday hero this guy was.
Mike Gibson
When Josh McDowell was in town last week he stated we do not have any heroes anymore……..Not So………Sgt. Tingwall and Officer Cox are TRUE HEROES!
Let us continue to pray for the family of Sgt. Tingwall and for the full recovery of Officer Cox. Let us pray also for the family of Megumi Yamamoto who live in Japan.
Please fly the flag, Sunday is Flag Day……..My dad’s birthday………he always said, “Look Kid’s they are flying the flag for me on my birthday.” Yep, dad that was always true in our hearts as you were an AWESOME Dad and served our Country as a Sgt. in the U.S. Marines in WWII. My dad also bought me my first brand new bike on HIS BIRTHDAY!!!!
Flag Day
The Birth of Old Glory [detail],
Percy Moran, artist, copyright 1917.
Prints and Photograph Online Catalog
Resolved, that the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.
June 14, 1777,
in Journals of the Continental Congress.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1875
On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress approved the design of a national flag.
Since 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14, Americans have commemorated the adoption of the Stars and Stripes by celebrating June 14 as Flag Day. Prior to 1916, many localities and a few states had been celebrating the day for years. Congressional legislation designating that date as the national Flag Day was signed into law by President Harry Truman in 1949; the legislation also called upon the president to issue a flag day proclamation every year.
According to legend, in 1776, George Washington commissioned Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross to create a flag for the new nation. Scholars debate this legend, but agree that Mrs. Ross most likely knew Washington and sewed flags. To date, there have been twenty-seven official versions of the flag, but the arrangement of the stars varied according to the flag-makers’ preferences until 1912 when President Taft standardized the then-new flag’s forty-eight stars into six rows of eight. The forty-nine-star flag (1959-60), as well as the fifty-star flag, also have standardized star patterns. The current version of the flag dates to July 4, 1960, after Hawaii became the fiftieth state on August 21, 1959.
School Children at Central High III,
Prince George’s County, Maryland,
Theodor Horydczak, photographer,
circa 1920-50.
Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
School Children at Central High I,
Prince George’s County, Maryland,
Theodor Horydczak, photographer,
circa 1920-50.
Washington as It Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
Elmhurst flag day, June 18, 1939, Du Page County centennial / Beauparlant.
Chicago, Ill.: WPA Federal Art Project, 1939.
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA, 1936-1943
Interviews in American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940 contain entertaining examples of Flag Day in the American vernacular. For example, a search on Flag Day retrieves the following conversation between Mr. Richmond and Mr. Davis:
Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division’s First 100 Years
“I do not salute the flag because I have promised to do the will of God,” wrote ten-year-old Billy Gobitas, a Jehovah’s Witness, to the board of the Minersville (Pennsylvania) School District in 1935. Like most public school students at that the time, Gobitas was required to salute and pledge allegiance to the flag daily. His refusal to do so touched off one of several constitutional battles over the authority of the state to require respect for national symbols and the right of individuals to freedom of speech.
Both the United States district court and the court of appeals ruled in favor of the right to refuse to salute the flag. In 1940, however, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the government did have the authority to compel respect for the flag as a central symbol of national unity. Just three years later, on June 14, 1943, the Supreme Court reconsidered its earlier decision, holding that the right of free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment denies the government the authority to compel individuals to salute the American flag or to recite the pledge of allegiance.
Let us pray………..Lord, thank you for the United States of America, One Nation Under God………In the name of Jesus, AMEN!
In the Love of Christ, Dewey Sharon and family
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