Flag Day is a nationally recognized holiday celebrated on June 14.
According to the Department of Veteran Affairs, President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, and President Calvin Coolidge, in 1927, both issued proclamations asking for June 14 to be observed as the National Flag Day . However, it wasn’t until Aug. 3, 1949, that Congress approved the national observance , with President Harry Truman signing it into law.Which do you believe?
The first claim comes from Hartford, CT., at a celebration during the first summer of 1861. In the late 1800s, schools all over the United States held Flag Day programs to contribute to the Americanization of immigrant children, and the observance caught on with individual communities. "The most recognized claim," according to the VA Dept., comes from New York. On June 14, 1889, Professor George Bolch, principal of a free kindergarten in New York City, had his school hold patriotic ceremonies to observe the anniversary of the Flag Day resolution, attracting attention from the State Department of Education, which arranged to have the day observed in all public schools thereafter.
Another claim comes from Philadelphia, in 1893, when the Society of Colonial Dames succeeded in getting a resolution passed to have the flag displayed on all of the city’s public buildings. Elizabeth Duane Gillespie, the president of the Colonial Dames of Pennsylvania, also tried that year to get the city to call June 14 Flag Day. It was not until May 7, 1937, that Pennsylvania became the first state to establish the June 14 Flag Day as a legal holiday.
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