But of course.
Flag Day is described thusly by no less than the Associated Press:
The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a proclamation the next year that the U.S. flag symbolizes freedom and “protection from tyranny.”
…. The holiday marks the date in 1777 that the Continental Congress approved the design of a national flag for what to Great Britain were rebellious American colonies.
… National observances for Flag Day began well ahead of the law signed by Truman, with a proclamation issued by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916.
Wilson’s action came several decades after communities began Flag Day celebrations. In 1891, Philadelphia held its first — at one of Ross’ former homes — and it evolved into an annual, weeklong Flag Fest.
The small village of Waubeka, Wisconsin, north of Milwaukee, claims the first observance in 1885.
Civil War soldiers showed extraordinary courage under fire to keep their colors aloft, and multiple flag bearers died in single battles, said Matt VanAcker, who directs a now decades-old project at the Michigan Capitol to conserve flags from the Civil War and later conflicts. Michigan has collected about 240 old battle flags and had a display in its Capitol rotunda for decades.
“Many of the flags in our collection are covered with bullet holes,” VanAcker said. “A lot of them have blood stains — the physical evidence of their use on the battlefield.”
June 14th, by the sheerest of amazing coincidence, coincides with President Trump’s birthday. Safe to say, unless one believes the future president was already manipulating things from the womb, this is, as noted, sheer coincidence. Not unlike two of America’s Founding Fathers — Thomas Jefferson and John Adams — dying on the very same day of July 4th in 1826, the Trump birthday and Flag Day tie-in amazes.
Noted as well amidst the Flag Day celebrations is that the United States Army has embarked on a year of celebrations marking the 250th anniversary next year of the Army, founded on July 4, 1776. (RELATED: Yes, Flag Day Is Trump’s Birthday — and the Army’s 250th Anniversary)
My late Dad served first as a lieutenant and then a captain of Artillery in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1947. Serving right in the middle of the battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines.
But because President Trump’s beloved mother made so bold as to give birth to her son on Flag Day, the president’s foaming adversaries are going crazy about the upcoming Flag Day parade on June 14th. A day that will be shared with a happily celebrating president, members of the U.S. Army, and doubtless an endless crowd of celebrating Trump supporters.
So, what to do?
In light of the Left’s parade of violence and looting in Los Angeles — quite vividly on televised display — Washington authorities are doubtless braced for more of the same as the president, with help from the celebrating Army, hosts what ordinarily should be a happy, band-playing, and flag-waving quite patriotic celebration.
The fact that this may indeed not happen, replaced with a Los Angeles-style attack on patriotic Americans out to celebrate a long-held day devoted to the flag, speaks volumes about the reality of the American Left. (RELATED: Los Angeles Isn’t What’s Burning. The Democrat Party Might Well Be.)
No small thing is the historical fact that Flag Day came to be in the aftermath of the Civil War. It was a decidedly real effort to bring the once bitterly divided country back together.
And so, June 14th arrives. Bringing together not only a celebration and salute to the famed banner of red, white, and blue stars and stripes but, by the purest of historical coincidence, a birthday celebration for the nation’s 45th and 47th President.
Under ordinary circumstances, it should be a day to celebrate America and salute the duly and freely elected president, wishing him a decidedly Happy Birthday.
But it is, sadly, very safe to say that if this Flag Day is turned into a Los Angeles-style day of violence and hatred? Then the American people will yet again have reason to understand that there are people in this country who are not only not patriots but rather serious haters.
Haters of not just President Trump but America itself.
Buckle in.
And Happy Birthday, Mr. President.
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