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Join the North Pocono Public Library on Tuesday, June 14 at 10:30 AM for a Flag Day Celebration! Following the celebration come in the library for the Happy Birthday Library Story Hour!

Welcome: Susan Jeffery, Library Director

“It’s a Grand Old Flag” presented by our local Brownie Troop

Brief Statements by:

• John Croom, Commander, John J. Michaels Memorial VFW Post 5207
• Patrick O’Malley, Lackawanna County Commissioner
• Raising of the Flag: Local Boy Scout Troop 132, Spring Brook Twp. Assisted by Cub Troop 126

Pledge of Allegiance

Closing Prayer: Pastor Erick Luczak, Daleville United Methodist Church

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that officially established June 14 as Flag Day; in August 1949, National Flag Day was established by an Act of Congress. 

“This flag, which we honor and under which we serve, is the emblem of our unity, our power, our thought and purpose as a nation. It has no other character than that which we give it from generation to generation. The choices are ours. It floats in majestic silence above the hosts that execute those choices, whether in peace or in war. And yet, though silent, it speaks to us — speaks to us of the past, or the men and women who went before us, and of the records they wrote upon it.” – Woodrow Wilson