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How the rainbow flag became a symbol of the LGBTQIA+ community
The Pride flag is continuously evolving, with the latest intersex-inclusive design highlighting diverse identities within the ...
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Home again from France: World War II veterans return from D-Day commemoration
Ray Glansberg, 102, of Port St. Lucie and Sydney Edson, 100, of Lake Worth Beach, served during the 1944 D-Day invasion that ...
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France humiliated as D-Day flags STOLEN & anti-Macron graffiti scrawled over town hours before world leaders jet in
FRANCE has been humiliated after activists stole flags and scrawled anti-Macron graffiti across a town ahead of D-Day commemorations. Disaster unfolded at Plumelec in Brittany mere hours before ...
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Eagle Archives, June 15, 1932: Elks' impressive Flag Day exercises well attended
Flag Day exercises at the Elks Lodge in Pittsfield included a display of flags which have been carried by Americans from the time of the ...
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Why soccer star Zinedine Zidane is honorary starter for 24 Hours of Le Mans race in 2024
When compiling a list of legendary French sporting figures, locations and events, you'd be hard pressed not to include both ...
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An Army Special Forces Veteran Creates American Flags That Don't Burn
The material used to create these flags uses the same Kevlar-based fire retardant and manufacturing processes used to create ...
Seth Meyers Flags Hilarious Flaw With Donald Trump’s ‘Unhinged’ Fundraising Email
Seth Meyers on Thursday went to town on former President Donald Trump’s latest campaign fundraising email, which critics ...
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Burial flag found in Virginia reunited with family of deceased Ohio World II veteran
David Harvey, member of a VFW post in Fredericksburg, Va., spent three months tracking down family members of Thomas J. Ayers ...
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WWII veteran who witnessed flag-raising at Iwo Jima dies on way to D-Day commemoration in France
A World War II US Navy veteran who witnessed the raising of the United States flag at Iwo Jima has died on the way to a D-Day commemoration event in France. Robert Persichitti, 102, passed away on ...
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LOCAL COLUMN: Flag Day 2024
June 14. On this day, we commemorate the adoption of the “stars and stripes” design— June 14, 1777. Flag Day has been unofficially recognized since that ...
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Hazlett: Hats off to Flag Day
Why this date? Because on June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress adopted a red, white and blue flag, with 13 stars ...