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Question: What Feelings Does the American Flag Invoke?

In honor of Flag Day, we ask how you feel and what you think about when you see the American Flag flying high.

President Woodrow Wilson established June 14 as Flag Day in 1916, followed by Congress establishing as National Flag Day in 1949. We now celebrate by raising the stars and stripes high into the air. 

Many iconic photographs in American culture feature the raising of the flag. The images of the American Flag being raised at Iwo Jima and firefighters and rescue workers who flew it high above Ground Zero are burned into public memory. 

Our Question of the Day asks: What feelings does seeing the American Flag flying high invoke? What memories does the sight of the stars and stripes bring to mind?

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