{"id":2559,"date":"2015-09-10T08:44:33","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2024-06-28T14:19:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T18:19:09","slug":"american-flags-flew-earlier-911s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gettysburgflag.com\/blog\/american-flags-flew-earlier-911s\/","title":{"rendered":"American flags flew on earlier 9\/11s"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Civil War drummer boy with flag<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 14th anniversary of 9\/11 and the flags that flew as patriotism rose that day spur a question: What happened on other September 11s when American flags<\/a> flapped?<\/p>\n

FOSTERING MUSIC<\/p>\n

\u201cOh! Susanna\u201d is probably Stephen Foster\u2019s most famous song, and it was first performed on 9\/11 in 1847. But he also wrote the music for Civil War-era songs that encouraged patriotic efforts to keep the nation united.<\/p>\n

Two examples are \u201cFighting For the Flag Day and Night\u201d and \u201cFor the Dear Old Flag I Die,\u201d both published in 1865. The lyrics for the latter song begin: \u201cFor the dear old Flag I die,\/Said the wounded drummer boy;\/Mother, press your lips to mine;\/O, they bring me peace and joy!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Flags surrounded McKinley as he speaks at the Buffalo exposition, a day before he was shot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A DYING PRESIDENT<\/p>\n

On September 6, 1901, President William McKinley was shot while attending the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo. Earlier, star-spangled banners had fluttered throughout the grounds when he spoke to the crowds, and they stood near the chief executive when he was mortally wounded.<\/p>\n

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‘There’s no room for you in this nest,’ a flag-vested eagle screamed at the assassin of McKinley in this newspaper cartoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On 9\/11, a newspaper reported that one of the attending physicians said, \u201cThe President is doing well and everything\u2026has been most\u2026satisfactory.\u201d The doctor was wrong. McKinley died on September 14, and his funeral was bedecked with half-staff flags and bunting.<\/p>\n

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WELCOME HOME, WET ONE<\/p>\n

\"Mille<\/a>
Mille Corson with her husband<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The name of Mille Gade Corson is not well known today, but she was a celebrated athlete in her day, as reported by the Associated Press on 9\/11 in 1926. The cause of her celebrity can be stated in a few words: She was the first mom to swim the English Channel. Ocean liners and fishing boats lifted U.S. flags atop their masts to encourage her as she swam.<\/p>\n

At a flag-decorated City Hall in New York City that September, the mother of two was given a gold medal. Later, visiting a battleship, Corson was presented with a wrist watch and an American flag. Not bad for a Danish-born woman who came to the U.S. and worked her way up in her new nation by \u2013 what else? \u2013 giving swimming lessons.<\/p>\n

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FDR, wearing an armband to mourn his mother, addresses Americans via the radio on Nazi encroachments on U.S. shipping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

FDR AND EXPELLED STUDENTS<\/p>\n

In September 1941, three months before Pearl Harbor was attacked, newspapers across the country ran front-page stories with headlines like \u201cFDR Raps Axis Attacks On Shipping\u201d and \u201cRoosevelt Speech Is Called War.\u201d The cause was his remarks on 9\/11, warning German warships that they \u201chammer at our most important rights when they attack ships of the American flag.\u201d<\/p>\n

Papers also carried the story of several grade-school students in California. Alice, Claude, Lloyd, Eldora, Billy, Ruth, Elaine and Audrey were expelled \u201cfor refusal to salute the American flag and recite the pledge of allegiance,\u201d said The Sacramento Bee. They were all Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses, whose religious beliefs forbade them honoring anything other than God.<\/p>\n

Throughout the decades, 9\/11 has been an interesting, happy and tragic date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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