Welcome to Flag Steward's
Stories from Our Flag :)
for Wednesday, October 28, 2020​​​

[ pic by S. Sweeney, Chief Flag Steward, during family trip to NYC and visit to Statue of Liberty in 2011 ]

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Today's Story from Our Flag
Happy Birthday, Lady Liberty

[ Newspaper drawings of the Statue Liberty, completed, standing in Paris in June 1885.  It was designed by French Sculptor Frederic Bartholdi, on top of right of page, and its interior metalwork was built by Gustave Eiffel.  Public domain images ]

134 years ago, on this date, October 28th, in 1886, the Statue of Liberty was unveiled and dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland.  A French steamer brought the disassembled statue to New York on June 17th in 1885.  Sixteen months later, a massive celebration with thousands lining the parade route in NYC happened.  When the Statue of Liberty dedication parade, led by President Cleveland, passed by the New York Stock Exchange, the stock traders threw 'ticker tape' out the windows, which began the tradition of NYC "ticker tape parades."

[Note: 'Ticker tape' is the long, thin paper printout of stock market information trasmitted via telegraph to stock exchange workers.  It was the primary way to transmit stock market information for about 100 years - from 1870 to 1970.]

[ The Statue of Liberty dedication parade moved from land to water for the final part - as seen in the painting above (public domain) ]

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

Students across America, at school or at home, inspired by the Statue of Liberty, a gift from France to remember how France helped America secure its freedom from Great Britain, let's unite and state together ...

​​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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