A controversial flag which some say cost them their jobs is ready to go on display at a Springfield museum. Here's what you ...

During World War I and World War II, civilians wore the flag in uniform fashion as a great public display of solidarity with soldiers overseas. Wearing American flag apparel became a sign of unity ...

The first, local Flag Day observances came after the Civil War and eventually a federal law designated June 14 as Flag Day in ...

That's because the flag on an American servicemember's uniform is backward. That is to say, the canton (the top left corner), which houses the blue field of 50 white stars, is in the upper right.

Ted Kaye, secretary for the North American Vexillological Association, which studies flags and their meaning, said the “Appeal to Heaven” banner dates to the Revolutionary War.

On Memorial Day, the American flag should be flown at half-staff until noon in honor of those U.S. military members who died in service. At noon, the flag is raised to full-staff as a "symbol of ...

The Museum of the American Revolution is hosting the largest gathering of Revolutionary War flags in one place since the war itself. Seventeen of the 30 flags known to still exist are included in the ...

Ben King, Operations Director, Virginia War Memorial. King believes when a flag has flown for the last time, it deserves a fitting retirement. That belief was at the heart of a special ceremony ...

People place 12,000 miniature American flags on the hills on the Virginia War Memorial grounds to commemorate the annual Hill of Heroes Commemoration on June 28, 2024, in Richmond, Va. Margo Wagner ...