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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.
Jun. 9—The organizers of the Hands Off! Protest events in Fairfield are planning a slightly different gathering in Fairfield on Saturday, June 14. "No Kings is a national day of action and mass ...
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 ...
Three Oaks Flag Day takes place June 6-8 and claims to be the nation’s largest Flag Day celebration. Three Oaks is located in Berrien County in southwest Michigan near the Indiana border.
Alaska Child and Family will host its annual Alaska Flag Day celebration on July 9 to honor Benny Benson, the 13-year-old who ...
Batavia holds its Flag Day celebration Saturday which included some new activities this year. (David Sharos / For The Beacon-News) Jackie Buno of Palos Park and her husband Wayne came to the Flag ...
Disney is honoring its longstanding tradition of supporting the U.S. military. On July 4, the 1st Marine Division Band will ...
Students at two Mineola schools welcomed local veterans for special Flag Day celebrations. Adorned in red, white, and blue, ...
These fellows from the 1770s popped into the Lansdowne DAR Flag Day celebration and were very at home there, and didn’t at all seem to mind the oddly dressed people around them.
PHOTO PROVIDED The celebration of Flag Day is distinctively an Elks-originated holiday. In 1908, the Elks National Office ...
The Elks was the first fraternal body to require formal observation of Flag Day,” Gina Tirado said Grangeville Elks Lodge ...