{"id":114,"date":"2016-10-10T00:46:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2016-10-10T00:46:14","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T00:46:14","slug":"flag-day-the-most-under-celebrated-u-s-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Flag Day -The Most Under Celebrated U.S. Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 14 Jun 2015<\/p>\n

My immigrant grandparents, John and Mary Koss, are the only people I have ever known that celebrated Flag Day. \u00a0As a child, I remember my Gramps assembling the flag kit and proudly placing it in our front yard, which faced Route 6 in Gary, Indiana, on every patriotic holiday.<\/p>\n

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The pic above is taken from an old 35mm film that my husband had converted to DVD. \u00a0I’m on the left in my tennis outfit. \u00a0I never did learn to play tennis well but I definitely kept the custom of celebrating Flag Day.<\/p>\n

We’d cook hotdogs on a small portable grill, accompanied by my grandmother’s Croatian style potato salad (which is sort of like German potato salad using oil and vinegar instead of a mayonnaise base but it’s served hot). \u00a0 My mom would bake a cake, frost it with white icing and decorate with blueberries and strawberries for the stripes and banana slices dipped in lemon for the stars.<\/p>\n

I can’t decide why Flag Day is so under celebrated. \u00a0Maybe it’s because it falls right after school has ended and people are on vacation. \u00a0Or maybe because it’s sandwiched in between Memorial Day and Independence Day. \u00a0Perhaps it’s because Father’s Day is right around the corner. \u00a0My best guess is because Flag Day is not an official federal holiday. \u00a0Although Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Flag Day in 1916, Congress didn’t approve it until 1949. Seriously, it took 33 years to approve this holiday.<\/p>\n

I am going to continue to celebrate the day and our symbol of freedom. Here’s a few links about our flag and the interesting genealogy of the people who are part of its history:<\/p>\n

The Legend of Betsy Ross<\/a><\/p>\n

The Star Spangle\u00a0Banner and Mary Young Pickersgill\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Driver’s Old Glory<\/a><\/p>\n

For my readers in countries other than the U.S. – I challenge you to proudly wave your country’s flag today and think about the values it represents. \u00a0Happy Flag Day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally published on genealogyatheart.blogspot.com on 14 Jun 2015 My immigrant grandparents, John and Mary Koss, are the only people I have ever known that celebrated Flag Day. \u00a0As a child, I remember my Gramps assembling the flag kit and proudly placing it in our front yard, which faced Route 6 in Gary, Indiana, on every … Continue reading “Flag Day -The Most Under Celebrated U.S. Holiday”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-stories","tag-flag-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyatheart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}