<\/i>Have you ever celebrated those wacky celebratory days and months like National Popcorn Poppin\u2019 Month (October) or Kiss & Make Up Day (Aug. 25), seriously?<\/p>\n
This month has some doozies: Go Barefoot Day (June 1), Best Friends Day (June 8), Eat Your Vegetables Day (June 17) and World Music Day (June 21).<\/p>\n
June is Children\u2019s Awareness Month. Is that to remind us that we have children in case we\u2019ve forgotten them the other 11 months of the year?<\/p>\n
It is also National Iced Tea Month,\u00a0 but I don\u2019t need to be reminded of that. Iced tea is my drink of choice year-round. If I don\u2019t have any within reach at any given time during the day, I get antsy.<\/p>\n
Besides being Eat Your Vegetables Day, June 17 also is Father\u2019s Day. Is it coincidental that those two fall on the same day? Yes, it is. Father\u2019s Day is not always June 17 but EYVD always is.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re wondering where I\u2019m going with this, I\u2019m sliding into a patriotic subject of June 14, Flag Day.<\/p>\n
Flag Day first was celebrated in the late 1800s at schools before being celebrated in June 14, 1891, at the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia, and then being officially adopted by several states.<\/p>\n
Because of many nationwide celebrations of Flag Day, it was officially established by the federal proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30, 1916, and then later designated National Flag Day by an Act of Congress under President Harry Truman on Aug. 3, 1949.<\/p>\n
No law exists about how to fly or display the American flag, but a National Flag Code was written in 1923 by representatives of a large number of organizations, under the auspices of the American Legion\u2019s National Americanism Commission. If you want to read the National Flag Code, visit www.usflag.org.<\/p>\n
The American flag is a symbol, a symbol of liberty, justice and all we hold dear about our country. We sing the National Anthem with our hand over our heart to this symbol. We do the same when we say the \u201cPledge of Allegiance.\u201d<\/p>\n
The liberties we enjoy under the symbol of our flag include freedom of religion, freedom to assemble, freedom to petition the government for redress of grievances, freedom of the press and the right to speak freely.<\/p>\n
That last one can get gnarly at times, particularly in this age of social media and the Internet.<\/p>\n
A woman wrote recently on our website in response to Idypark replacing Jo\u2019An\u2019s in the center of town:<\/p>\n
\u201cI was planning today for our family vacation this summer. Wilderness Pines and eating at Jo\u2019an\u2019s in the town. I am very bummed and also upset that all it took was one person to end a 50 year vacation eatery spot for many people and their families. I started going there as a very young kid in 1968 and have handed the tradition down to my kids and grandkids. The outdoor entertainment was always my favorite part of Jo\u2019an\u2019s; along with the hamburgers and fries.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been hoping someone would set her straight on several points but they haven\u2019t. Maybe they all feel like I do that it wouldn\u2019t matter anyway. The point is, she\u2019s upset and she vehemently expressed it under the First Amendment. Happy Flag Day!<\/p>\n
Becky Clark, Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you ever celebrated those wacky celebratory days and months like National Popcorn Poppin\u2019 Month (October) or Kiss & Make Up Day (Aug. 25), seriously? This month has some doozies: Go Barefoot Day (June 1), Best Friends Day (June 8), Eat Your Vegetables Day (June 17) and World Music Day (June 21). June is Children\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":35428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"amp_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,680],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n