TEMECULA – The first of January, 247 years ago, was a day to rejoice. Just as people today look towards a new year with new resolutions, new dreams and new desires, Jan. 1, 1776, Gen. George Washington hoisted the Continental Union Flag. Visit https://www.onthisday.com/.In Washington’s General Order of Jan. 1, 1776, he wrote, I hope “that the Importance of the great Cause we are engaged in, will be deeply impressed upon every Man’s mind, and wishes it to be considered, that an Army without Order, Regularity & Discipline, is no better than a Commission’d Mob; Let us therefore, when every thing dear and valuable to Freemen is at stake; when our unnatural Parent is threat’ning of us with destruction from every quarter, endeavour by all the Skill and Discipline in our power
