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A banner day
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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8:00am June 14 2023
“Resolved, that the Flag of the thirteen United States shall be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white on a blue field, representing a new constellation.” With those words, the Second Continental Congress—which included six Yale alumni at the time—established the Stars and Stripes as the nation's flag on June 14, 1777. 
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