FLAG DAY USA - BETSY ROSS SEWED THE STANDARD OF OUR NATION..........

"It's a grand ol' flag, it's high flying flag, and forever in peace may it wave"... These are the opening lyrics of a patriot song honoring our American Flag. Today is Flag Day in the United States, when we commemorate the creation of the Stars And Stripes as our national flag, by the Continental Congress, in 1777. Patriot Betsy Ross then sewed the first American Flag, our foremost national symbol, the past 233 years..."It's the emblem of the land I love, the home of the free and the brave"...Our Flag not only signifies the United States hard fought for freedom and liberty, and independence, but our indivisible Union as 50 sovereign States and 3 affiliated Trust territories. President Woodrow Wilson declared Flag Day an annual national observance in 1916. In 1948, President Harry Truman signed Congressional legislation designating Flag Day each year on June 14th. And so, as unfurl or see the Stars and Stripes flying on this Flag Day 2010, may its national symbolism renew in you and all our citizens, the patriotism we need to express and further, now as ever in our history...May, "Every Heart Beat True Under 'the' Red, White And Blue",..........Fr. Troy