Flag Sojourn 250 Events in Pittsburgh
Salute a very special flag before it is escorted to Washington, D.C.
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A single American flag that has traveled to every U.S. state and every military cemetery overseas will spend three days in Pittsburgh before being escorted in an American Legion motorcycle convoy to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. For more on the nation’s semiquincentennial anniversary, and the role Pittsburgh will play in it, visit here.
Here is the schedule of local commemorative flag events planned by the National Flag Foundation:
July 1
★ 1 p.m. 911th Airlift Wing
★ 3 p.m. United Steelworkers Building
July 2
★ 9 a.m. Fort Ligonier
★ Noon Point State Park
★ 1:30 p.m. North Shore Riverfront Park
★ 6 p.m. Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall
★ 8:15 p.m. Mount Washington
July 3
★ 8 a.m. National Cemetery of the Alleghenies
★ 10 a.m. Flag Plaza
★ Noon Freedom Corner
★ 4 p.m. Bakery Square
★ 6 p.m. Carrie Blast Furnaces
July 4
★ 5:45 a.m. National Flag Foundation, Koppers Building
★ 9 p.m. Light To Unite
