Flag Day observances will be hold currently during Fairfax High School as well as Pico Rivera City Hall to symbol a 234th anniversary of a Second Continental Congress’ embracing a cause of a dwindle with thirteen stripes as well as thirteen stars.
One hundred fifty students from Fairfax High School, Bancroft Middle School as well as Nestle as well as Lokrantz facile schools will accumulate during Fairfax High School to respect a dwindle with performances of such nationalistic songs as a “The Star-Spangled Banner,” “Stars & Stripes Forever” as well as “God Bless America.” Fifty veterans will additionally experience in a festivities.
A rite imprinting Flag Day will additionally be hold during a Pico Rivera City Hall prior to a City Council meeting.
Flag Day has been celebrated given Congress authorized a corner fortitude upon Aug. 3, 1949, installation Jun fourteen as Flag Day.
In his Flag Day proclamation, President Barack Obama wrote “Our dwindle is a symbol of a single country, a single people, ordering underneath a single banner. When a American dwindle soars, so as well does a republic as well as a ideals it stands for.”
