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June 14 marks the day in 1777 when the Continental Congress officially adopted the Stars and Stripes as our national flag. Though President Woodrow Wilson established Flag Day by proclamation in 1916, ...
President Woodrow Wilson borrowed the idea of Flag Day from a small-town Wisconsin school teacher.In 1885, Bernard Cigrand ...
The design of the American flag as we know it today has deep historical roots, particularly involving Betsy Ross and the ...
The Bridgeport Elks Lodge 714 hosted its annual Flag Day Ceremony at the Elks Lodge in Bridgeport, Saturday, June 7.  The ...
On June 14, more than 1,000 local demonstrations will challenge President Donald Trump’s North Korean-style military parade for his birthday with our defense of democracy.
America is nearing the 250th anniversary of its revolutionary birth, the Declaration of Independence. July 4, 2026, will mark ...