{"id":236003,"date":"2026-07-05T11:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236003\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T11:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T11:37:08","slug":"early-morning-ceremony-marks-final-leg-for-american-flag-on-year-long-worldwide-journey-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/236003\/","title":{"rendered":"Early morning ceremony marks final leg for American flag on year-long worldwide journey \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 An American flag that\u2019s been on an incredible journey for the country\u2019s 250th birthday has left Pittsburgh and is now on its way to its final stop in Washington, D.C. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">For the last year, an American flag has been on a journey across the world, known as The Flag Sojourn 250, making symbolic stops in every U.S. state, territory and military cemetery overseas. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The final leg of the journey took place in the Pittsburgh region, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflagfoundation.org\/pa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nationalflagfoundation.org\/pa\/\" target=\"_blank\">13 gatherings<\/a> representing the 13 original colonies. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The last of those Pittsburgh stops was an early morning send-off on Independence Day. At dawn, Allegheny County Sheriff Kevin Kraus held a final farewell ceremony, handing off the flag to around 250 motorcyclists with American Legion Riders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Those motorcyclists are now taking the flag to Washington, D.C., where it will fly over the U.S. Capitol. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 An American flag that\u2019s been on an incredible journey for the country\u2019s 250th birthday has left&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6638,31827,4884,23257,139,859,73,75,74,14076,593,420,860],"class_list":["post-236003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-allegheny_county","tag-american_legion","tag-dc","tag-kevin_krause","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-sheriff","tag-us","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236003","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=236003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}