Since President Woodrow Wilson declared June 14 Flag Day in May 1916, the United States has honored the adoption of the stars and stripes in a number of ways, including carrying the flag in parades, displaying it outside homes and holding other patriotic events. Before 1916, a number of states and cities had started to observe the day.

But this Saturday’s Flag Day observance will be different — both in Utah and across the country — thanks to an unusual confluence of military history, a Donald Trump-champio

Military leaders, veterans, and civic voices gather at Mount Vernon to mark Army’s 250th and launch a campaign urging Americans to serve their country.

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 proclamation the next year that the U.S. flag symbolizes freedom and “protection from tyranny.”

On June 14, there is a massive military parade to celebrate the ... the 248-year-old origin story of Flag Day tends to fall quiet as the day is nestled between Memorial Day and the Fourth of ...