Flag Day USA
by Kathy K McClellan
Title
Flag Day USA
Artist
Kathy K McClellan
Medium
Photograph - Photographs
Description
Flag Day USA by Kathy K. McClellan is a photographic image processed for Day 165 of the 365 Challenge (Journal 2022) which also happens to be Flag Day. This is a square image.
June 14th is Flag Day in the United States. Although it is not an official National Holiday it is a State Holiday in Pennsylvania.
Several histories of Flag Day give Bernard J. Cigrand, a Wisconsin schoolteacher, credit for starting Flag Day in 1885, for urging his students to celebrate Flag Birthday. He also later wrote an essay, published in a Chicago newspaper, urging Americans to celebrate this day.
In 1888 William T. Kerr of Pennsylvania dedicated his life to the organization that he founded, the American Flag Day Association of Western Pennsylvania.
George Morris of Connecticut is also said to have organized the first formal celebration of the day in Hartford in 1861.
President Woodrow Wilson, in 1916, proclaimed June 14 as the official date for Flag Day, and the U.S. Congress permanently established the date as National Flag Day in 1949.
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June 14th, 2022
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