Last year around Memorial Day, Fort Snelling received a lot of rain, and with the way the flags are stored — in plastic totes ...

O n Feb. 23, 1945, U.S. Marines raised an American flag atop a mountain on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during a battle in WWII. A photograph of the moment taken by Joe Rosenthal, which became ...

While reviewing some American flag etiquette recently, I came across this older post I had written as Memorial Day was approaching ... on the graves of Civil War soldiers. By the end of the ...

In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial ... soldiers and a flag in a central position at the wall. While Lin and the committee count the American ...