Laughlin Honor Guard helps Elks honor flag

Published June 18, 2014
By Senior Airman Nathan Maysonet
47th Flying Training Wing Public Affairs

LAUGHLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Texas -- On June 14, 2014, the Laughlin Honor Guard attended the Benevolent and Protective Order of the Elks Flag Day ceremony and performed a flag detail.

Flag Day honors the day the Second Continental Congress adopted the nation's flag June 14, 1777.

The BPOE began the tradition of honoring the U.S. flag in a ceremony on June 14, 1907 and later convinced President Woodrow Wilson to issue a proclamation in 1916 officially naming June 14 as Flag Day.

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