The "long, lanky" man carrying the American flag on Decoration Day in May 1909 was a familiar sight at patriotic events in ...

Today is David’s day," the Rev. Steve McGowan said during the service. "This morning, we have not come to mourn, but to ...

Thomas Rogers, returned the flag — or yosegaki hinomaru — to ... “They want to pay their respects to American soldiers that are fallen, and then we’re going to go to my great-grandfather ...

Lietz, an Army Reserve Soldier, has served around the globe ... front of thousands of cheering hockey fans and salute the American flag while Wayne Messmer sang the National Anthem,” said ...

Flags for Fort Snelling does that by placing an American flag at every headstone on the hallowed ground. For eight of its 10 years running, they’ve been able to reach that goal… But for 2025 ...

Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up an American flag, a moment that ... to the deaths of 21,000 Japanese soldiers, who defended the island through ...

Harvey Fleshman was a 21-year-old sailor when he was selected to serve on a seven-member honor guard at the opening ceremonies of American Military Cemeteries across Europe in 1960.

Marines initially invaded Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, as part of the U.S. island-hopping campaign in the Pacific, and it took four days to gain the summit of Suribachi, according to a Department of ...

For regulation purposes, both the soldier and the plane are the flagpoles: the flags are displayed as they would appear facing opposition from the wind. While the American flag is easy enough to i ...

His job as a combat correspondent meant that he was to write about American valor and ... lurching around the United States with some of the flag-raising soldiers to drum up financial support for what ...