Today, June 14th, is Flag Day, commemorating the adoption of our Stars and Stripes by the Continental Congress on June 14th, 1777. Noted on CBS’s Sunday Morning by the world’s only full time flag expert, vexillologist Whitney Smith, our country had no common race, no king, and no common religion; the idea of a  document like the constitution or the concept of liberty being the binding force is very abstract, and people needed something concrete, so the flag became that binding force. Happy Flag Day.

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