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Flag Day was first proposed in 1861 to rally support for the Union side of the American Civil War. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a presidential proclamation that designated June 14 as Flag Day. [4] On August 3, 1949, National Flag Day was officially established by an Act of Congress. [5]
A flag day is a flag-related holiday, a day designated for flying a certain flag (such as a national flag) or a day set aside to celebrate a historical event such as a nation's adoption of its flag. Flag days are usually codified in national statutes passed by legislative bodies or parliaments ; however, in some countries a decree or ...
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Sarah Levinson Moriarty, whose father died in captivity in Iran, celebrates a new flag that will fly on National Hostage and Wrongful Detainee Day on March 9. Opinion: A new flag is going to fly ...
Brian Berkeley Burland was born in Bermuda in 1931, [5] to Gordon Burland and his wife Honor (née Gosling), and was one of four siblings. [2] His was a privileged family background, but from an early age Brian was very conscious of Bermuda's racial inequalities and empathised with black Bermudians: "An important figure in his early life was Sarah Hinson, his black Bermudian nanny who ...
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3 candidates, Ashley Hinson, Sarah Corkery and Jody Puffett, are running in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District, in the northeastern corner of the state.
A musical setting for "The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag" was created by Irving Caesar, at the suggestion of Congressman Louis C. Rabaut whose House Resolution 243 to add the phrase "under God" was signed into law on Flag Day, June 14, 1954. [50] The composer Irving Caesar wrote and published over 700 songs in his lifetime.