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

The regiment would adopt “Old Glory” as its motto. The confusion over flags began later that night, when a storm threatened to tear the banner to pieces. Driver apparently replaced it with a ...

The United States is probably the most flag-obsessed nation in the world. Other nations, for the most part, reserve the ...

("The Star-Spangled Banner" plays) The Star-Spangled banner isn't as old as the flag. It was written during another war, the War of 1812, by a man who was glad to see his country's flag. Francis ...

Lecturing Knight Jeannette Wilkinson, a resident of Eltingville, place the final tier of a floral Liberty Bell during the ...

But to the new flag proponents, the old banner fails most of the basic principles of good flag design, looking cluttered and hard to make out from a distance. The front of the official Raleigh flag.

The old state flag had a lot going on. The banner included everything from an eagle holding a shield bearing the national stars and stripes, a ribbon being the state motto of "State sovereignty ...