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Flag Day 2025: When is it and what you need to know

Mark June 14, 2025, for Flag Day 2025 and prepare the celebrations!

Here's everything you need to know for Flag Day 2025. Photo: Federal Flags
Here's everything you need to know for Flag Day 2025. Photo: Federal Flags

Are you looking for something to do this June 14? While this year, the main event will probably be Donald Trump's grand military parade celebrating the Army's 250th anniversary, and his birthday; it is worth highlighting that the date also celebrates an important symbol of America's history: the American flag.

Flag Day 2025 is just around the corner! Don't miss this opportunity to celebrate the "Stars and Stripes". Here’s everything you need to know about Flag Day 2025 and how it’s celebrated.

Why is Flag Day celebrated?

Flag Day remembers June 14, of 1777, when the Continental Congress first established the first composition of the American flag. "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation."

Nonetheless, almost 100 years later, a city north of Milwaukee, Wisconsin called Waubeka would be the first one to ever celebrate Flag Day, in the late 1800s by Bernard J. Cigrand, a schoolteacher. President Woodrow Wilson would later issue a proclamation declaring June 14 as Flag Day in 1916; and President Harry S. Truman, in 1949, signed the formal declaration which established the date as a holiday.

How is Flag Day celebrated?

After that first celebration, and the intervention of 2 U.S. presidents, the country has honored the American flag, in many different ways. While parades are always a hit; ceremonies, and essay contests, are often organized by veterans groups, schools, and civic organizations.

However, Flag Day is not a federal holiday, which means mail and government services will still be available. Only Pennsylvania, recognizes Flag Day as a state holiday, allowing residents a respite from work and school.

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