Flag Day

A few weeks ago, the Louisiana State University, a small group of students tried to wake you to burn an American flag to protest what order or other appropriate that believed in the symbolic destruction of their homeland. Before you had to go, but the protest was interrupted by other students, who questioned them. To get around the crowd hit about the future flag burners, also the sad spectacle of a failed demonstration. The crowd shouted "USA, USA, USA, USA" and some threw water balloons, the protesters were led away to their own safety, the security officers.

This argument is a piece of clothing found something important for the American flag, this is an idea that most students in the LSU, or even most Americans across the country, not like burnt and destroyed, symbolically or otherwise. Today is Flag Day, and therefore a good time to reflect on the symbolism of the flag.

This day in 1777, amid a desperate struggle for American independence, the delegates to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, the "Stars and Stripes, the official flag of the emerging American nation. Resolution adopted by the White purity and innocence means the land and Valor Red and blue, vigilance, perseverance and justice. "These colors are organized on 13 alternating red and white stripes and 13 white stars on a blue field, symbolizing the unity of the 13 colonies and the American people struggle for their inalienable rights.