The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

Old Glory. For many of us in Superiorland and, indeed, elsewhere, our flag is an all-but sacred symbol of sacrifice and freedom. Many of us fly the flag at our homes or places of business. And units ...

Dearborn will host a Flag Day event on June 14, including a flag retirement ceremony with veterans at Ford Field Park, and a ...

In Betsy Ross’ day, flags marked ships and told soldiers where they should move in the confusion of battlefield smoke and noise. The intense reverence many Americans feel for Old Glory arose ...

The Reverence for Old ... Flag Day celebrate? The holiday marks the date in 1777 that the Continental Congress approved the design of a national flag for what to Great Britain were rebellious ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her descendants claimed — might have been puzzled by ...

A man seized an American flag from self-identified Mexican-nationalist rioters in Seattle who intended to burn it Wednesday despite being attacked in the process. Rioting spread to […] ...