Flag Day became a national holiday some thirty years after Wilson left office, which was when President Harry Truman signed congressional legislation into law. Truman also directed, in a ...

Flag Day was first celebrated in the late 1800s by educators around the U.S., according to the National Constitution Center, and in May 1916, President Woodrow Wilson declared that June 14 would ...

More than 75 years after Flag Day became U.S. law, the stars and stripes grab our gaze these days in constant portraits of how Americans see their country’s promise — sometimes dotted ...

Flag Day, like other notable and patriotic celebrations, will be observed (once again) on June 14. Here's what we have learned about the holiday.

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in 1949, under World War I combat veteran Harry Truman. He declared in a ...

Photos: 2025 Memorial Day flag placement in Los Angeles Scout Troop 642 salutes for a troop group photo after helping plant flags at the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood on Saturday.

Young scouts gather for the flag planting welcome ceremony at the Los Angeles National Cemetery in Westwood on Saturday. About 3,500 Scouts planted 90,000 flags ahead of Monday's Memorial Day ...