{"id":101923,"date":"2026-02-01T00:09:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101923\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T00:09:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T00:09:21","slug":"wreath-laying-ceremony-at-liberty-bell-celebrates-national-freedom-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101923\/","title":{"rendered":"Wreath-laying ceremony at Liberty Bell celebrates National Freedom Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; February 1st marks National Freedom Day, recognizing Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lva.virginia.gov\/collections\/educator-resources\/online-classroom\/stc\/entries\/thirteenth-amendment-to-the-united-states-constitution-1865\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">1865 signing of what became the 13th Amendment<\/a>, which abolished slavery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Each year, the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalfreedomdayassoc.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Freedom Day Association<\/a> places a wreath at the Liberty Bell and shares what this moment in history means.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The National Freedom Day Association was formed in 1941 by Major Richard R. Wright Sr. The organization is focused on providing scholarships to high school students that can help them attend college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">As a holiday, February 1st was formally <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trumanlibraryinstitute.org\/this-day-in-history\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">declared by President Harry S. Truman as National Freedom Day in 1949<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Watch the video above to see today&#8217;s event at the Liberty Bell Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/videoClip\/18125503\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: 90-year-old devotes decades to preserving the Wissahickon War Memorial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" aria-hidden=\"false\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" data-mptype=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/18127573_PHILLYPROUD-for-111025-wpvi-WARMEMORIALKEEPER-thumb.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>90-year-old Phil Moyer spends his free time cutting grass and polishing plaques at the Wissahickon War Memorial in his beloved Philadelphia neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; February 1st marks National Freedom Day, recognizing Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s 1865 signing of what became&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49536,49537,49535,5503,6551,555,49534,69,71,70,34251],"class_list":{"0":"post-101923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-13th-amendment","9":"tag-abolished","10":"tag-association","11":"tag-ceremony","12":"tag-independence-mall","13":"tag-liberty-bell","14":"tag-national-freedom-day","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","17":"tag-philadelphia-news","18":"tag-slavery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}