Flag Day and National Flag Week, 2021

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Title 3--
The President

Proclamation 10227 of June 11, 2021

Flag Day and National Flag Week, 2021

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

In the midst of a revolution, less than a year after
declaring our independence, the Congress consecrated
what would become an enduring emblem of American unity
by adopting a national flag on June 14, 1777.

In the 244 years since, the United States has grown and
changed across the generations--and our flag has
changed in turn. The blue field of stars has been
enlarged as our Union has gained in size and strength.
The 13 stripes, symbolizing the 13 original States,
have held as constant as the bedrock values upon which
our Nation was first conceived--the very same values we
still cherish, and still reach for, today.

Since adoption of the Stars and Stripes, Americans--and
people around the world--have continuously looked to
our flag as a symbol of unity and liberty. Our flag has
sailed around the globe, and journeyed to the Moon and,
now, to Mars. It has flown on fields of battle, and
marks the resting places of those who have given what
President Lincoln called ``the last full measure of
devotion'' for our country. Its prominence at civic
landmarks and seats of public authority communicates
the promise of democracy--that under this flag, the
rule of law is supreme and the people reign. As we
continue the sacred work of building a more perfect
Union together, let our flag serve as a reminder to us,
and to the world, that America stands for and strives
for the promise of freedom, justice, and equality for
all.

To commemorate the adoption of our flag, the Congress,
by joint resolution approved August 3, 1949, as amended
(63 Stat. 492), designated June 14 of each year as
``Flag Day'' and requested that the President issue an
annual proclamation calling for its observance and for
the display of the flag of the United States on all
Federal Government buildings. The Congress also
requested, by joint resolution approved June 9, 1966,
as amended (80 Stat. 194), that the President issue
annually a proclamation designating the week in which
June 14 occurs as ``National Flag Week'' and calling
upon all citizens of the United States to display the
flag during that week.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of
the United States of America, do hereby proclaim June
14, 2021, as Flag Day, and the week starting June 13,
2021, as National Flag Week. I direct the appropriate
officials to display the flag on all Federal Government
buildings during this week, and I urge all Americans to
observe Flag Day and National Flag Week by displaying
the flag. I encourage the people of the United States
to observe with pride and all due ceremony those days
from Flag Day through Independence Day, set aside by
the Congress (89 Stat. 211), as a time to honor the
American spirit, to celebrate our history and the
foundational values we strive to uphold, and to
publicly recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of
the United States of America.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
eleventh day of June, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-one, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
fifth.