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Week Ending June 18, 2004

House Resolution 662 Recognizing that Flag Day originated in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.

BRIEF

   Congress finds that the Stars and Stripes was adopted as the national flag on June 14, 1977 and 108 years later in 1885 Bernard John Cigrand pushed to establish June 14 as Flag Day .

   Mr. Cigrand, a school teacher from Waubeka, Wisconsin, urged his students in the Stony Hill public school in Fredonia, WI to observe the day as the flag’s birthday and did so by requiring the students to write an essay about what the flag meant to them.

   It was 39 years later in 1916 when President Woodrow Wilson issued a Presidential Proclamation that officially established June 14 as Flag Day.

   43 years later in 1949, President Harry Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14 of each year as National Flag Day.

   Congress urges “the people of the United States to study, reflect on, and celebrate the importance of the flag of the United States, encourages the people of the United States to display the flag of the United States in accordance with the provisions of chapter 1 of title 4, United States Code, and recognizes that Flag Day originated in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin.

Sponsor: Representative James F. Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-WI)

Vote: Passed House by voice vote.

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