Flag Day - Dearborn 19th District Court Bldg - Thur June 14th 6pm

FLAG DAY

"The public is invited to attend the City of Dearborn’s annual Flag Day commemoration ceremony.

The ceremony will be held at 6 p.m. on Thursday, June 14, in front of the 19th District Court building, located at 16077 Michigan Avenue (west of Greenfield Road).The commemoration will include a dignified ceremony to burn tattered American flags, in keeping with American Legion protocols for the disposal of flags that are no longer fit for public display.

Members of the public may drop off tattered flags for burning at the ceremony site beginning at 5 p.m. that day.June 14, 2007, will mark the 230th anniversary of the adoption of the stars and stripes design as the nation’s flag by the Continental Congress in the year 1777. "