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Flag Day honors a June 14, 1777, Second Continental Congress resolution about a flag for the country. "Resolved, that the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation," it said. What is the history behind Flag Day? Many figures in the 1800's led the charge to recognize the flag's importance. Hartford, Conn., resident George Morris in 1861 got his town "to undertake a patriotic celebration on behalf of the Union," according to a Philly.com report, which added that the idea failed to become popular. However, the flag was honored on June 14, 1877: "As instructed by Congress, the U.S. Another person, William Kerr, was involved in setting up the National American Flag Day Association in 1889, TribLive.com reports. The article says that Kerr would meet multiple U.S. presidents as part of the years he spent trying to make Flag Day be recognized. Philly.com reports that George Bolch, a New York City principal, made his school have events in 1889, before Elizabeth Duane Gillespie fought for flags to be waved from public Philadelphia buildings in 1893

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