Flag Day Ceremony at Shelton Community Center

The public is invited to join in a Flag Day ceremony at the Shelton Community Center courtyard, 41 Church St, Shelton on Friday June 14, 2013 at 11am.

The Sarah Riggs Humphreys-Mary Silliman Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) will conduct the ceremony honoring the American Flag in the outside courtyard.  If it rains, the ceremony will take place in the Community Center’s second floor meeting room.  The Chapter encourages community members of all ages to join us in celebrating this symbol of our freedom.

The Chapter will also be accepting flags that are no longer serviceable. Please bring them with you to the event; one of the Chapter members will take them and dispose of them correctly.

Congress adopted the U.S. Flag on June 14, 1777 and Flag Day’s roots began nearly 100 years later on June 14, 1885 when a young Wisconsin teacher, Bernard Cirgrand, placed a flag on his desk and assigned essays on the flag and its significance.

On May 30, 1916 President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation calling for a nationwide observance of Flag Day and in 1949 President Harry S. Truman signed an act of Congress designating June 14 of every year as National Flag Day.

The DAR perpetuates the memory and spirit of the men and women who won American independence.  Any woman over 18 who can prove an ancestor served in the American Revolution is a prospective member.  For more information on the DAR, visit http://www.sarahriggshumphreysDAR.org or call Sarah Riggs Humphreys-Mary Silliman Chapter Regent Christy Hendrie at 203.261.2628.