A year later, he finally made it to Iraq for the first of two deployments there. He stepped off a C-17 Globemaster III the night he arrived to see the American flag flying on the airfield.

There are still two weeks to go in the mourning period for former president Jimmy Carter, when American flags are directed to ...

(Vexillology is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags.) Matthew Ward is a senior lecturer in history at the University of Dundee in Scotland. He notes that the American flag is ...

Jerry Vogler is superintendent of the McLean County Veterans Assistance Commission. Episode 172: Hosts Richard Kyte and Scott ...

The American flag would "for the first time ever during an Inauguration of a future President, be at half mast," said Trump. "Nobody wants to see this, and no American can be happy about it.

GOP governors of at least eight states ordered flags to be flown at full-staff on Inauguration Day, bucking tradition by ...