Cigrand, now known as the Father of Flag Day, continued to publicly advocate the observance of June 14 as the flag's birthday, or "Flag Day," for years. Just a few years later, the efforts of ...

An Oklahoma community expressed outrage after a high school student was banned from flying the American flag on his truck ... distractions during the school day,' the school district told ...

American Francis Scott Key awoke on the morning of Sept. 14, 1814, to find that "our flag was still there" after horrific 25-hour British naval bombardment of Fort McHenry in Baltimore.

Middletown Area Middle School held its annual Constitution Day ceremony. Students have spent the past weeks studying the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They learned American flag etiquette, how ...

Hurricane Valley Fire & Rescue ushered in Patriot Day in remembrance of Sept. 11, 2001 with the raising of an enormous ...

Constitution Day became a national observance in 2004, when Senator Robert Byrd passed a bill designating September 17 as the day for citizens to commemorate the signing of the U.S. Constitution and ...

It’s John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Barbara Fritchie,” an American classic. For many decades, schoolchildren memorized and ...

Then I saw it: an oily American ... every day is a good reminder that children need to know the nature of the Republic to which they are pledging allegiance. Our Republic and its flag have an ...

The celebration also is intended as a display of pride and appreciation for the more than 13,000 people in the Reading area ...

NEW YORK, N.Y. (PIX11) — The West Indian American Day Carnival will bring the party to Brooklyn during Labor Day weekend but ahead of the parade’s march, get your flags ready with West Indian ...

Delegates wear suits adorned with stars and stripes, dresses with American flag patterns ... the military be misused on Jan. 6, 2021, the day a pro-Trump mob — some of whom Trump has glorified ...

It's part of the law passed by Congress in December 2001 designating Patriot Day. The American flag will fly at half-staff when the country or a state is in mourning, according to USA.gov.