Tuesday marked Flag Day, which commemorates the anniversary of the Second Continental Congress declaring that the American flag would have “13 stripes, alternate red and white … [and] 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation” in 1777. President Woodrow Wilson declared the day an official holiday in 1916, however, it isn’t a federal holiday.
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