The “Stars and Stripes”, the official National symbol of the United States of America was authorized by congress on that Saturday of June 14, 1777 in the fifth item of the days agenda. The entry in the journal of the Continental Congress 1774-1789 Vol. Vlll 1777 reads “Resolved that 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.”
It is the right of every American to proudly display the Flag of the United States at their home, their business, and elsewhere. When you “SHOW YOUR COLORS” you tell the world that you are proud to live in the “Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.”
“The flag represents a living country and is itself considered a living thing.
US Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, § 176. ( j )
Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!
(Verse 4 of the Star Spangled Banner written by Francis Scott Key in 1814)
