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Americans will celebrate Flag Day on Saturday, marking the anniversary of Congress adopting the design of the U.S. flag. At ...
The United States is probably the most flag-obsessed nation in the world. Other nations, for the most part, reserve the ...
This Father's Day weekend brings another, more obscure holiday in the U.S.: Flag Day. Here's what the holiday is and how and when it started.
Celebrated each year on June 14, Flag Day commemorates the 1777 approval of a national flag design by the Continental ...
The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a ...
The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — might have been puzzled by Saturday's modern Flag Day.
On June 14, 1777 the American Congress “… resolved that the flag of the United States be 13 stripes alternating red and white that the union be 13 stars white in a blue field, representing a new ...
This Father's Day weekend brings another, more obscure holiday in the U.S.: Flag Day. Here's what the holiday is and how and ...
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14, according ...
The flag features essentially the same design the panel adopted in May for a new county seal, which replaced one showing an image of Junipero Serra, the Ventura mission and symbols of industry.
The flag finalists both include design elements that celebrate the world famous Canisteo Living Sign, while coloring and symbols recognize Canisteo's Native American heritage, its rural setting, its ...