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| Date: | 06 14 1940 |
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| Description: | Madison's first Flag Day celebration, sponsored by the Order of Elks at the University of Wisconsin stadium. After a speech by Carl Zeidler, the audience j... |
| Date: | 06 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Attorney General Thomas E. Fairchild gives the keynote address at the flag day ceremony at the Madison Elks Lodge, 120 Monona Drive. At the left is Kenneth... |
| Date: | 05 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Members of the Women's Relief Corps scattered flowers on the waters of Lake Mendota in honor of Navy and Air Force dead as part of Memorial Day services in... |
| Date: | 05 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Eighty-two-year-old William N. Nichols holding a flag during Memorial Day services at the Wisconsin State Capitol. He is the son of a Union Civil War veter... |
| Date: | 05 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Two veterans with a confederate flag in front of Confederate Rest in Forest Hill Cemetery during Madison's Memorial Day ceremonies. |
| Date: | 11 11 1995 |
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| Description: | "Members of Legion Post 270 performed a flag-burning ceremony on Veteran's Day." |
| Date: | 05 1993 |
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| Description: | Mourners, miltary band, and white crosses on Memorial day. |
| Date: | 06 15 1953 |
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| Description: | View across road towards eight members of Madison American Legion and its Auxiliary posed and raising a large new flag at the Veteran's Administration Hosp... |
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