Flag Day

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Poster: The 140th Flag Day 1917

The Flag Day is an American day of remembrance that on June 14 is celebrated. It is not a national public holiday , banks, authorities and businesses go about their normal operations. Most schools already have summer vacation.

On this day, the US flag is particularly honored. In many places, the flag is therefore set on the occasion of Flag Day . Occasionally streets and buildings are decorated in the national colors or (less often) festive memorial speeches are given.

How far the celebrations intervene in public life varies greatly from region to region. Flag Day is a public holiday in Pennsylvania and American Samoa , but in American Samoa it is celebrated on June 17th. Flag Day is of particular importance to Pennsylvania, as Betsy Ross made the first American flag in the Pennsylvania city of Philadelphia . On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress declared it the flag of the Thirteen United States, the insurgent colonies in the American War of Independence .

origin

Flag Day never really caught on in the shadow of the National Day ( Independence Day ) on July 4th and Memorial Day on the last Monday in May. Until 1877, celebrations in honor of the American flag took place only at irregular intervals, if at all. On June 14, 1877, the flag was hoisted on every public building on the occasion of her hundredth birthday.

The first official Flag Day was celebrated in Philadelphia in 1893. In New York , June 14, 1897 was set as Flag Day.

President Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921) proclaimed June 14, 1916, Flag Day on May 30, 1916.

In August 1949, June 14th was established as Flag Day by federal law . Every year since then, every president has proclaimed Flag Day and encouraged Americans to fly the American flag in front of their homes and businesses.

See also

Portal: United States  - Pictures, articles, and more about the United States

literature

• Cecilia E. Leary: To die for. The paradox of American patriotism . University Press, Princeton 2018. ISBN 978-0-691-18850-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Woodrow Wilson: "Proclamation 1335 - Flag Day," May 30, 1916. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project.

Web links

Commons : Flag Day  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Betsy Ross and the Flag ( Memento from April 28, 2006 in the Internet Archive )