FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HONORING OLD GLORY ON FLAG June 14 Marks
the 230th Birthday of the MOUNT LAUREL, NJ, JUNE 11, 2007 – The
Flag Manufacturers Association of America (FMAA) proudly
celebrates the 230th birthday of the U.S. flag on Flag Day, June
14, and encourages all Americans to join in the celebration and
honor our nation’s great symbol by flying their U.S. flag. The
national flag we are familiar with today was adopted 4, 1960
following the inclusion of United States of . This flag was a
descendant of an original flag – the flag that was born within a
year of American Independence. June 14, 1777 the Founding
Fathers first symbol with just 28 words in a jewel-like message:
“The Flag of the be 13 stripes, alternate red and white, that
the Union be 13 stars, white on a blue field representing a new
constellation.” The story that invented this design at the home
of his friend, seamstress Elizabeth Griscom Ross, in June of
1776 is now considered fiction; nonetheless, the “Betsy Ross”
flag, with the 13 stars