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The annual observance reminds Americans that their flag represents more than cloth and thread; it embodies the principles of ...
It’s Flag Day, a day that honors the adoption of the United States flag on June 14, 1777. The original resolution declared ...
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.
Since President Woodrow Wilson declared June 14 Flag Day in May 1916, the United States has honored the adoption of the stars ...
Flag Day, like other notable and patriotic celebrations, will be observed (once again) on June 14. Here's what we have learned about the holiday.
The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day came decades after the lifetime of the woman often credited with sewing ...
“It is sufficiently humiliating to have had to carry it and exhibit it,” fumed the Confederate officer who wielded the flag of truce—now on display at the Smithsonian—at Appomattox Courthous ...
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