On this day, in 1775, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress appealed to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia to assume authority for the New England army, because as we all know, THE BRITISH WERE COMING!!! (I hope my friend Katie has a good laugh!) So, allegedly at the behest of John Adams, Congress voted to take the NE Army and conscript it for use in all colonies (though no written record exists for that vote). However, they did vote to “to bring in a draft of rules and regulations for the government of the Army,” thus, the birth of our U. S. Army.
Being an Army wife, I am partial to this military birthday, for it is two-fold.
Today is also Flag Day!! On this day, the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution of 1777, which officially adopted the flag of our new found country.
When I arrived in Texas, it was the summer of 1976. Everything was red, white, and blue, and I thought this was the most color-coordinated country in the world. My dad explained that we were celebrating a very important birthday, and so began my love affair with History.
Long may she wave!!!
Crossposted everywhere I’m at 😉
June 14th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
The Pledge and the National Anthem always bring tears to my eyes! I love the land. My Dad joined the ARMY on Dec 8, 1941!
June 14th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Me too, FOH!! I cry every time I hear them 😀
And praise and thanks to your father for his service!!
June 14th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
My response posted Elsewhere You At, in respect for your quiet little world here.
My Dad also join the Army (Air Corp) early in WWII, and I got my commission as an infantry platoon leader.
My respect is real, if stated irreverently. 😉
June 14th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Awww, thank you!
Did you notice we got a troll over by there? 😉
June 14th, 2012 at 10:44 AM
Yes I did and I’m pleased and proud to have provided the third thumbs down! Ass clown.
June 14th, 2012 at 10:46 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Well done, sir!! 😀
June 14th, 2012 at 12:16 PM
Better a quiet, yet effective, fart in his cubicle than to engage in the flame war he wants.
June 14th, 2012 at 12:17 PM
Hey, I have been VERY nice to him. I want him to feel welcome 😉
June 14th, 2012 at 10:59 AM
Awesomeness! Up until a series of high-wind thunderstorms about a month or so ago, I used to give directions to my house as “we’re the only house on the street flying an American flag”. Rain or shine, day or night…my theory was that if we had troops defending our country somewhere, I’d fly the flag. Well…came home after one of those thunderstorms, only to find the flag (and pole, oddly enough) laying in the middle of the yard. I don’t suspect foul-play, just a loose screw (literally) holding the flagpole into the holder. I haven’t had the opportunity (read: funds) yet to replace the flag, and need to get out in the garage with Mrs.Alien to properly fold the flag and drop it off with the American Legion to be disposed of.
National Anthem, “God Bless the USA” (Lee Greenwood), and various other patriotic songs usually give me chills and goosebumps and set the little hairs on the back of my neck break-dancing. Sorry, I’m just a stone-cold bass-turd who only cries watching the taxi-cab scene in “We Were Soldiers” (and equivalent scenes in other movies).
June 14th, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Ours came down after a bad and freaky hailstorm that went through a few weeks ago. Hubby is planning on putting up another this weekend, and he and Son will properly dispose of our flag.
That always makes me cry…
June 14th, 2012 at 11:16 AM
Well I never! Bloomin cheek! (te he he)!…. Well us Brits loved a good invasion back then…. We just loved the British Empire…… (it’s a little scary when I look back at it)…. I found this lovely picture of an old stamp just for you…
http://www.britishempire.co.uk/resource/britishempirestamp.htm
Anyway, Happy Birthday U.S. Army, I am glad we’re all friends now…..
Where does the President keep his Armies?
Up his sleevies! 😀
June 14th, 2012 at 11:27 AM
That is a very lovely stamp, Katie. I do hope the UK still feels the same way 🙂
And very funny joke!
June 14th, 2012 at 11:32 AM
(It’s ok, you can say it, it is a terrible joke…..) 😉
June 14th, 2012 at 11:38 AM
It was funny enough to make me spew my coffee 😀
June 14th, 2012 at 12:02 PM
Awesome….. that was my plan…. (Make the American spew!) 😉 xxx
June 14th, 2012 at 2:05 PM
I was a little late to the fray, Ms.Aggie . . .
Graduated college, enlisted 18SEP2000
The war I was looking for found me on the second day of Tower Week at Jump School.
Glad to count British Soldiers and Royal Marines as friends.
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The french . . .? Not so much . . .
June 14th, 2012 at 4:48 PM
At least the French have cheese, RoundHammer.
And the whine to go with it 😉
June 14th, 2012 at 6:07 PM
You call camembert cheese . . .?!
For SHAME, Ms.Aggie!
It is so runny the Germans shot it in the back outside of paris in 1939, having mistaken it for a retreating french soldier . . .
It recovered from its wounds and lived a life of self-loathing, publically-funded performance art and recrimination, only to be incompetently eaten in 1972 by a mischievous cat in the equally incompetent Mr.Wensleydale’s Ye’ National Cheese Emporium.
Resulting in John Cleese shooting the aforementioned incompetent Mr.Wensleydale in the face . . .
June 14th, 2012 at 6:09 PM
Mr.Cleese bucking the trend by employing a firearm quite competently . . .
June 15th, 2012 at 5:58 AM
Long may she wave, indeed!!!