The Daily Flag

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, [...]

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Flags Bay and its companion site The Daily Flag began in San Leon, a fiercely independent fishing community that sprawls across the end of of a stubby peninsula sticking into Galveston Bay, Texas. We eventually relocated to the southern edge of the hill country to be closer to family, but we miss the bay and [...]

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Yesterday the U.S. Postal Service dedicated the second set of the Flags of Our Nation stamp series in a ceremony at postal headquarters in Washington, D.C. The new series features the flag of District of Columbia, and the the state and territorial flags of Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Kansas. In [...]

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