By eHow Holidays & Celebrations Editor
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Unless you live in Pennsylvania, where it's an official holiday, you probably won't get the day off on June 14. But wherever you are, you can celebrate the day in 1777 when the Continental Congress adopted the Stars and Stripes as the pattern for our national flag.
eHow Holidays & Celebrations Editor
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Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 Remember why there was a need for a new flag: after the colonies broke with England, the new United States had to create a flag for the newly established nation. They could no longer fly England's flag.