Welcome to Flag Steward's 'Be a Stud Citizen'
Half-Staff Alerts & Reminders from Our Flag
(relaying Civics info & US History memos)
for Tuesday, May 25, 2021​​​​
[ Front porch US Flag, an iHonor, interactive flag relaying the story of a GWOT Fallen Marine via the Flag Steward iHonor site = S. Sweeney pic ] 

Where is Our Flag, the U.S. Flag, at half-staff today?

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[ 3 Ways for You & Students to Experience today's 'Be a Stud Citizen - Reminders from Our Flag': ]
[ 1) KEEP SCROLLING down this page and read it to yourself or perform it aloud for your school / classroom. If reading the page to a classroom, skip any text in [ brackets ].
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or, 3) WATCH the <5 minutes VIDEO of today's Reminders from Our Flag, by yourself or with your classrooom on a projector/flatscreen ]

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Today's Historical Moment from Our Flag
... celebrates the start of the Constitutional Convention ...

[ US Selective Service "draftees" table = public domain image from Wikipedia ]

On this date, May 25, in 1787, the Constitutional Convention began to meet.  This group of state representatives, who chose George Washington to serve as President of the Constitutional Convention, were initially planning to fix the Articles of Confederation, that were the first system of government for the United States.  But, after much discussion and debate a whole new system of government was being pushed to approval.  The most significant plans submitted for review were from James Madison and Alexander Hamilton.  The biggest struggle to figure out the right system of government for America was to satisfy the desire of small states to maintain power in the face of bigger, more populated states.  So, Connecticut proposed a compromise that mixed elements of the Madison and Hamilton plans.  It established a system with 2 law-making bodies - one, the Senate, that had equal representation by all the states, and a second, the House of Representatives, that had representation based on the population of each state.  It took nearly 4 months, until September, to reach an agreement on the new U.S. Constitution.

[ U.S. Constitution = public domain image ]

And, now it's time to ...
Recite the Pledge of Allegiance

Students across America, at school or at home, more informed and inspired by the creation of the U.S. Constitution, by uniting and reciting the Pledge.

​​Thanks for participating in today's U.S. Flag tribute.
This is Sean Sweeney, a fellow Flag Steward, signing-off:

Go out and 'be a stud citizen' today
Keep America Beautiful, and remember,
In God We Trust

​In God We Trust
(Official motto of the United States of America)
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