PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Sunday was Flag Day — and a celebration of all things stars and stripes was happening in Old City Philadelphia where this nation's flag was created. On this day in 1777, the flag was adopted as the symbol of the United States of
B.J. Cigrand, a Wisconsin schoolteacher, arranged for public school students to observe June 14 — the anniversary of the official adoption of the Stars and Stripes — as "Flag Birthday" or "Flag Day." In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and
Morgan, a native of Jamaica, was one of 20 people to be naturalized as a United States citizen during a ceremony late Saturday morning, as a part of Yeadon's Flag Day celebration. After the ceremony, at a yard sale in front of the borough library
“What we did today was to release 50 balloons red, white, and blue with a tag on them to ask the finder of the balloon to tell us where they are flying their flag for Flag Day,” said Charlie Spano, chairman of the 9/11 Memorial
Morgan, a native of Jamaica, was one of 20 people to be naturalized as a United States citizen during a ceremony late Saturday morning, as a part of Yeadon's Flag Day celebration. After the ceremony, at a yard sale in front of the borough library