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Thousands of people lined up along Center and Main Streets in downtown Cedar City on Friday morning for the local Lions ...
The Crescent Hill Fourth of July Festival celebrated its 40th year on Friday, with help from a popular pet contest.
Alright, now that it’s later. The Red Sox hit the shit out of the baseball. Trevor Story had four hits, a home run, and a ...
In any case, the tale of Old Glory became a classic example of United States patriotism and a nickname for all American flags ...
The Daughters or the American Revolution and the Sons of the American Revolution held a flag raising ceremony on Thursday, ...
Lisa Acker Moulder, director of the Betsy Ross House historical site in Philadelphia, said that for Ross, conferring with Washington would have been the key point of her account.
The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a ...
The reverence for Old Glory that inspired Flag Day arose decades after Betsy Ross sewed her first The intense reverence many Americans feel for Old Glory arose from the Civil War.
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 ...