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<DIV>Greetings to all!</DIV>
<DIV>See below and please share.</DIV>
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<DIV>Warmly,</DIV>
<DIV>Joe </DIV>
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<DIV>We care. We share. We grow. We make a difference<BR>Joe Ruffalo, First
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=mr_president@nabv.org
href="mailto:mr_president@nabv.org">mr_president Humphrey</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 14, 2021 4:18 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> undisclosed-recipients:</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Flag Day US Army Birthday</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<H3>Happy Birthday "Old Glory" and the US Army. I hope and pray you
are
all in good health. I am looking forward to "seeing" you at the
convention With any luck we will meet in person next year</H3>
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<H3>10 FACTS </H3></DIV>
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<DIV>1. <A
href="https://www.whatsoproudlywehail.org/10-facts-about-flag-day">Flag
Day</A>
is celebrated on June 14. It commemorates the adoption of the American flag
by
resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. </DIV>
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<DIV>2. The American flag, as we know it today, consists of 13 horizontal
red
and white stripes, each representing the 13 original colonies of the United
States, and a blue rectangle in the canton with 50 white, five-pointed stars
representing the 50 states of the Union. </DIV>
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<DIV>3. The 1777 resolution did not set the size or proportions of the flag,
or
even what shape the constellation of stars should be. As a result, flags of
the
era showed the constellation of stars in different arrangements, and flags
were
made with differing proportions. It was not until 1912 that the flag’s
design
was standardized. </DIV>
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<DIV>4. A new star is added with the inclusion of every new state to the
Union.
The number of stars increased to 15 in 1795, 20 by 1818, and the trend
continued. The 50th star was added with the inclusion of the state of Hawaii
to
the Union in 1959. </DIV>
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<DIV>5. Until 1818, a new stripe was also added for each new state. The
famous
Star-Spangled Banner that inspired our national anthem had 15 stars and 15
stripes. </DIV>
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<DIV>6. The <A
href="https://www.history.com/news/did-betsy-ross-really-make-the-first-american-flag">first
flag</A> was not made by Betsy Ross. We do know that Ross was a seamstress
and
that she probably <EM>did</EM> sew American flags; she just didn’t
create
the first one. </DIV>
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<DIV>7. The flag got its nickname, “Old Glory,” from William Driver, a
Massachusetts-born resident of Nashville, Tennessee who hid his homemade
flag
from Confederate troops, unfurling it again when the city came under the
control
of federal troops. </DIV>
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<DIV>8. The Pledge of Allegiance was written not for Flag Day, but for
Columbus
Day. </DIV>
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<DIV>9. Flag Day was founded by a school teacher named Bernard J. Cigrand,
who
began observing the day with his class at Stony Hill School in Waubeka,
Wisconsin. </DIV>
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<DIV>10. President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation establishing June
14th
as Flag Day on May 30, 1916. </DIV>
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<DIV>Cordially, </DIV>
<DIV>Vern </DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=default-style>Vernon F. Humphrey PhD </DIV>
<DIV class=default-style>MSG, US Army (R) </DIV>
<DIV class=default-style>President National Association of Blind Veterans
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<DIV class=default-style>“Each of us is in essence like a rubber band ball.
Culture is developed as if adding one rubber band after another. Some rubber
bands are wide and comforting; some are thin, tight and painful, with a
variety
of sizes in-between adding to the construction. Each new rubber band changes
the
mass, density and dimension of the ball and how it will react to outside
stimuli, just as the layers of culture change how we as humans react to
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