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Flag Day worksheets are a great way to help kids learn about the history of the American flag while celebrating this important part of American heritage. Observed every year on June 14, Flag Day ...
A flag resolution was adopted 248 years ago, on June 14, 1777, that said, "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, ...
The Legion unveiled a new flag retirement drop box in the Legion parking lot. The drop box, which was nearing its end of life ...
Hundreds donned stars and stripes Saturday for this Palouse town’s 114th annual Flag Day parade – said to be the oldest ...
UPDATE: 8:55 a.m. Thursday, June 12 Due to expected inclement weather, the location of the annual Flag Day celebration has been changed to Jacksonville City Hall, 315 S. Ragsdale. The event will ...
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation establishing a national Flag Day on June 14, according to the Library of Congress. Both Wilson, in 1916, and President Coolidge, in ...
The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her ...
Flag Day commemorates the adoption of the U.S. flag on June 14, 1777. While observed nationally, Flag Day is not a federal holiday, though Pennsylvania recognizes it as a state holiday. While the ...
Flag Day is on June 14th, and is the day the stars and stripes were adopted as the United States flag. The village's parade got it start just eight years after the end of World War II.