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President Woodrow Wilson borrowed the idea of Flag Day from a small-town Wisconsin school teacher.In 1885, Bernard Cigrand ...
Welcome back for a simply patriotic episode of I Never Knew That!You know the American flag by its plethora of nicknames: Old ...
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14, according ...
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has issued a new American flag stamp. The stamp features the Star Spangled Banner, ...
They didn’t know until they saw the flag that we’d won, so this is the genesis of the poem. O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
But his collection of fragments from the Star-Spangled ... the flag’s former curator at the Smithsonian Institution, to which Georgiana’s son donated the banner in 1912.
Invitees to the museum’s grand reopening in 2008 admire the newly restored flag. Susan Biddle / The Washington Post / Getty Images The Star-Spangled Banner, the flag that inspired Francis Scott ...
Accompanied by UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Trump was greeted by children waving U.S. and UAE flags and an honor guard that included camels.A highlight of the ceremony was a ...
For veterans, Memorial Day is a solemn occasion, a day dedicated to remembrance and reflection for those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the freedoms that Americans have long ...
To join or register, go to registration.arlingtonva.us or call 703-228-4747. The Star-Spangled Banner Flag House in Baltimore, a virtual discussion and presentation by Jill Peters, senior tour ...