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Flag Day Celebration
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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 joined the Eagle Scouts in a pledge of allegiance to the flag and a huge flag was unfurled with the assembled bands playing the Star Spangled Banner.
June 14, 1940
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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