After a decade’s conservation, the flag that inspired the National Anthem returns to its place of honor on the National Mall.
By Robert M. Poole for Smithsonian magazine, November 2008
Long before it flew to the moon, waved over the White House or was folded into tight triangles at Arlington National Cemetery; before it sparked fiery [...]
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Last month The Daily Flag received a question about flag precedence, etiquette and protocol, which is routine, but for the event in question, it was not.
It was for the “Run for the Fallen,” to the Healing Field Memorial at Patriot Park in Cathedral City, California, sponsored by the Cathedral City Rotary Club and Cathedral City. [...]
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The Daily Flag presents a great trio of flag stories today, across the nation from the east coast to our western-most state (where I would like to be, because I love Kona coffee, and those creamy Macadamia nuts drenched in chocolate, swaying palm trees, aqua-white surf on a brilliant sun-lit beach … oh yeah, I [...]
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For someone who writes about flags, this story is hot hot hot!
The State of Oregon celebrates its sesquicentennial next year (1859-2009), and The Oregonian newspaper in Portland has announced a contest to design a new flag for the state. It’s not sanctioned by the State of Oregon, but it’s a start.
The Oregon flag, like [...]
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What a great Color Guard! These little cadets with great big hearts carried the U.S. flag, the state flag of Washington, the U.S. Army flag, and the U.S. Air Force flag onto Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners.
Lakewood Boys & Girls Club kids carry colors
By Kris Sherman of THE NEWS TRIBUNE
Published: October 15th, [...]
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Ferdinand and Isabel
Today many Americans will celebrate Columbus Day. Columbus landed in the "New World" on October 12, 1492. The flags carried by Columbus on his first exploration have always been of great interest to the historians and vexillologists. Spanish history is much too complicated for me to understand or explain in any detail, but [...]
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This flag is popular with Texans, for obvious reasons. Santa Anna made too many mistakes to list here, but his troubles began in Gonzales, and Texans have had a strong distaste for dictators ever since.
Thirty-two men who stood their ground at Gonzales later died in the Battle at the Alamo.
The image shown at right is [...]
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In 1989, the National Weather Service retired its Coastal Warning Display, which had been in use nation-wide for more than 100 years. The display stations were established at yacht clubs, marinas, and Coast Guard stations to hoist flags, pennants and colored lights to warn mariners of storms at sea. The display stations were individually notified [...]
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In the late 1960s, the wife of a Prisoner-of-War held in North Vietnam organized a group of families who also had family members listed as POWs or were MIA—missing in action. The organization grew and in 1970, it incorporated in Washington D.C. as the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast [...]
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The third Friday of each September is set aside by law, as National POW-MIA Recognition Day, and today I want to cover the protocol for flying the POW-MIA flag. Tomorrow I’ll write about the flag, and how it came to be, and what it means to Americans.
Tomorrow the U.S. Flag flies at full staff, with [...]
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