As we approach Flag Day on June 14, we reflect on how our flag came to be and the etiquette surrounding our nation’s symbol.

As we approach Flag Day and an upcoming Flag Retirement Ceremony on June 14 at the Cambridge Legion, we reflect on how our ...

Barnette in 1943 that public school students cannot be forced to salute and pledge allegiance to the U.S. flag. The pledge, dating back to Sept. 1892, was written to commemorate the 400th ...

8, 1892, the instructions for the "National School Celebration of Columbus Day" were printed and featured the Pledge of Allegiance for the first time. The magazine gave away a flag with every new ...

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The flag salute caught on ... Celebration of Flag Day began in 1885, and the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited on Columbus Day in 1892. Although neither carries the weight of law today ...

The flag salute caught on, and by World War I several ... Celebration of Flag Day began in 1885, and the Pledge of Allegiance was first recited on Columbus Day in 1892. Although neither carries the ...

If you ask anyone who’s attended public school in America to say the Pledge of Allegiance ... became the first to legislate that children salute the flag at the beginning of each school day.

The pledge was originally composed in 1892 by Baptist minister ... as they stand and pledge allegiance,” archives from Feb. 6, 1943, read. In 1954, the salute was altered again, this time ...