Flag News and Commentary
Military shadow boxes are designed to protect and display the most special American flags. Often they hold the flags of veterans. Sometimes those memorial flags rest atop the caskets of veterans who have passed. These flags are irreplaceable and deserve the most special treatment and protection. This Christmas, a military shadow box protecting a very special […]
President-elect Donald Trump has released a statement calling for stiff penalties for those who burn the American flag. Trump’s proposal states the act of burning an American flag should be a crime — presumably a nationwide Federal crime — hand-in-hand with with harsh punishments for those who would violate the imagined new law prohibiting burning an […]
An American flag burning demonstration outside this year’s Republican National Convention was led by a man named Gregory Lee “Joey” Johnson, who lit the American flag on fire, and who also accidentally lit his pants on fire. Johnson also burned an American flag in protest in front of the RNC in 1984, in Dallas, Texas. […]
In honor of the victims of the attack in Nice, France, President Obama has ordered all flags to be flown at half-staff through sunset, July 19, 2016. The last half-staff proclamation, issued in response to the Texas shooting, was in effect through sunset, July 12, 2016. This is the text of the current proclamation: […]
Memorial flags are presented by the military to the families of those who have served and passed. A memorial flag was the only remaining physical connection a North Wildwoods, New Jersey family had to their 19 year old brother who perished during the Vietnam War in a maritime disaster in the South China Sea. After the disaster, […]
We learned recently of Samuel Adams’ struggle to display his flag at his Colorado apartment complex. In the notice he received, references were made to regulations barring clutter, drying laundry, dead plants, garbage and gasoline. We strenuously resist the comparison of an American flag any other ordinary mundane object. The American flag is both a […]
Colorado resident Samuel Adams wanted to display an American flag on his own balcony in preparation for the 4 July Independence Day celebrations. His grandfather was a surgeon during World War I. His dad also served. He’s patriotic individual who wishes to display the flag of our Country. Unfortunately, the management of his apartment complex […]
A Colorado man named after Founding Father Samuel Adams is defying his apartment complex’s request to remove his 3X5 American flag from his balcony railing. Here’s Samuel reading the letter he got from management. Samuel Adams had hung the flag only recently on his apartment balcony railing in support of the then-upcoming 4th of July Independence […]
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran rescued an American flag from a highway near Spokane, Washington, this 4th of July. The flag had detached from the vehicle of its owner, a young man named Dallas Pierce, who lost it returning from a trip to a swimming hole, and who doubled back ten miles to find the […]
President Obama has issued a Presidential Proclamation ordering flags to be flown at half-staff till sunset Tuesday, July 16th, as a mark of respect of the victims of the attack on police officers in Dallas, Texas, on July 7th, 2016. The text of the Proclamation follows: The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate […]