It is critical for family members who want military funeral honors to tell the funeral director ... folding the American flag and presenting the flag to the family. The Department of Veterans ...

The White House ordered public flags to be displayed at half-staff for a period of 30 days from Carter's day of death, who died Dec. 29. Flags are flown at half-mast on ships and at naval stations. On ...

Each of the 100 American flags welcoming visitors to the cemetery ... passed long after their service — receive full military funeral honors. The Department of Defense gave every eligible ...

Federal Public Law 106-65 mandates that each funeral honor detail consist of at least two military personnel. This team is responsible for folding and presenting a United States flag to the family ...

Flags across the United States continue to fly at half-staff in honor of former President Jimmy ... on all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all ...

A total of 196 elite full-time and part-time New York Army National Guard soldiers and New York Air National Guard airmen performed more than 8,700 gravesite military funerals last year ...