CLASSIC ROCK Q107 » Flag Day http://q1077.com Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:36:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Lufkin Celebrates 'Flag Day' Thursday, June 14 http://q1077.com/lufkin-celebrates-flag-day-thursday-june-14/ http://q1077.com/lufkin-celebrates-flag-day-thursday-june-14/#comments Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:59:38 +0000 Rick St. Nick http://q1077.com/?p=58414 Why Flag Day is not an official federal holiday like Independence Day is beyond me, but you should know that June 14 is "Flag Day", commemorating the adoption of the U.S. Flag by resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777.

President Woodrow Wilson, back in 1916, was the first to sign a proclamation establishing "Flag Day", and Congress agreed to back the cause in 1949.

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