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A Different Flag Day 2020, Star Spangled With Doubts

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Among so much change, Flag Day 2020 will be different as we celebrate cultural diversity surrounded by protest and affirmations of unity.

By David Stone

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When we celebrate the Star Spangled Banner, this year, we’ll see it through a lens we’ve never had before. With astonishing strength, Americans are pushing hard for social equality and public respect while a brutal pandemic and a recession might knock any other culture off its feet.

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Flag Day 2020, one for all, all for one?

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In 2020, Americans celebrate Flag Day on June 14th.

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Can’t we do better than this tarnished icon?

So, how did that star-spangled banner inspire our national anthem anyway?

Well, Francis Scott Key was held captive on a British vessel in Baltimore Harbor. He wrote about what he saw, and some one else fixed it up with a drinking song.

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It’s never too late.

Pride Progress Flag, FDR Four Freedoms State Park with Ballet Hispanico.

Long may it wave.

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