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The fifth annual raising of the Juneteenth flag will begin at 10 a.m., followed by a short reception. This will be the first ...
Flag Day, like other notable and patriotic celebrations, will be observed (once again) on June 14. Here's what we have ...
President Woodrow Wilson and President Calvin Coolidge each issued presidential proclamations asking for June 14 to be ...
Military leaders, veterans, and civic voices gather at Mount Vernon to mark Army’s 250th and launch a campaign urging ...
Two days ahead of Flag Day, when President Donald Trump’s military parade will run through the streets of Washington, ...
Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri has apparently heeded President Donald Trump’s call for a ban on flag burning. The senator is ...
Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery. See what President Trump said about it and what the holiday's flag means.
Celebrated each year on June 14, Flag Day commemorates the 1777 approval of a national flag design by the Continental ...
Originally celebrated by newly freed Black communities in Texas with religious services, barbecues and symbolic traditions ...
The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day came decades after the lifetime of the woman often credited with sewing ...
that the flag of the United States be made of 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation," according to the Smithsonian.
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.