- State of Connecticut -
MARCUS H. HOLCOMB
GoverNOR
I hereby designate Friday, the fourteenth day of June
upon which day suitable exercises in commemoration of the
adoption, on June 14th, 1777, of the Stars and Stripes as our
National flag shall be had in all of our public schools. The
children should be taught the principles and ideals repre-
sented by our flag; that each of its forty-eight stars represents
a sovereign state and that combined they represent the
greatest republic of the world. They should be taught that
this Republic was established with the sacrifice of lives and
suffering. They should be taught the significance of the
service stars which we see all about us, and that the owner
of each gold star appearing in increasing numbers has paid
the supreme sacrifice in this war which is to determine
whether liberty shall be preserved to humanity. They should
be impressed with the fact that sacrifice is the price of lib-
erty, and that the responsibility rests upon them in their day
and generation to preserve the liberty they inherit for the
generations which shall succeed them. Every day should
be a flag day with all of us, and we should pray to our God
to give us an enduring peace founded upon righteousness.
Given under my hand and seal of the State at the Capitol, in Hartford,
this twenty-ninth day of May, in the year of Our Lord one thousand,
nine hundred and eighteen, and of the independence of the United
States the one hundred and forty-second. -*-
By His Excellency's Command: º, .
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