There are specific days like Flag Day, Independence Day and Memorial Day, when many people and institutions display the American flag (not to mention all of the Americans who keep their flags up ...

Kaesler is a member of the Linares chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the location coordinator for Wreaths Across America at Miramar National Cemetery. She lives in Tierrasanta.

Independence Day is a quintessential American holiday and the flag is its most visible symbol, but many Americans are unaware that flying the flag is regulated by a set of rules enshrined by the ...

Tone of voice is usually the first tip-off for Alan Palmer. At least a half-dozen families pull the Evergreen-Washelli Memorial Park employee aside each Memorial Day and with hushed words ask some ...

The United States Flag Code is a federal law, but compliance depends on goodwill. Within our country’s general population, inconsistency is common. Many people seem to take great offense when someone ...

An elderly man sat in a wheelchair and watched as a parade marched by him. As the American flag approached, he struggled to rise from the wheelchair, yet the people around him talked and laughed, ...

Even flags need to be laid to rest properly — and in this country, that's no more true than of the American flag itself. On Saturday morning, American Legion Post 38 held an American Flag Retirement ...

In response to Tom Dawson’s letter about flying the LGBTQ+ flag on the same staff as the U.S. flag, the display was proper according to the Flag Code which states “when flags of states, cities, or ...

This Memorial Day, assuming you wake up early enough, you may notice the United States flag at half-staff. When you get up matters, because on Memorial Day, and only on Memorial Day, Old Glory flies ...

The American flag is once again at the center of controversy after a new executive order was signed seeking to criminalize flag burning when used in protest. Supporters of the order argue the Stars ...