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Stories from Our Flag :)
for Wednesday, September 16, 2020
MAYFLOWER DAY
Stories from Our Flag :)
for Wednesday, September 16, 2020
MAYFLOWER DAY
[ drawing of the Mayflower fighting through rough seas = public domain image ]
Where is Our Flag, the U.S. Flag, lowered to half-staff today, September 16?
There is ONE new Half-Staff order for All Flags across Maine.
...Other U.S. Flag Half-Staffs continue across all of Massachusetts, North Carolina, Kentucky, New York and Illinois...
...and in Pennsylvania there are half-staffs of their State Flags...
Upcoming H-S orders
All Flags across MN and VT on 9/19 for COVID-19 victims
There is ONE new Half-Staff order for All Flags across Maine.
...Other U.S. Flag Half-Staffs continue across all of Massachusetts, North Carolina, Kentucky, New York and Illinois...
...and in Pennsylvania there are half-staffs of their State Flags...
Upcoming H-S orders
All Flags across MN and VT on 9/19 for COVID-19 victims
[ CLICK HERE to see Half-Staff alert details, including pics, of Honorees ]
Today's Story from Our Flag
400 years ago, on September 16th, in 1620, the Mayflower ship with 102 Pilgrims (aka English Puritans) aboard set sail from Plymouth, England to go settle in Virginia of the New World. To celebrate this event, September 16 has been established as Mayflower Day.
Unfortunately, stormy weather and rough seas stirred the ship off course and, after a 66-day voyage, the Mayflower reached Cape Cod, Massachusetts instead. The bad weather kept them from trying to go to the north or south, so they sailed west across the bay and settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts in November of 1620.
Unfortunately, stormy weather and rough seas stirred the ship off course and, after a 66-day voyage, the Mayflower reached Cape Cod, Massachusetts instead. The bad weather kept them from trying to go to the north or south, so they sailed west across the bay and settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts in November of 1620.
[ Pic of Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, MA = public domain image ]
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