"A soldier stationed at Fort Hood received an order to remove the American flag from his rental home, sparking controversy over free speech and patriotic expression. The situation highlights the ...

Flag Day celebrates the symbolism and history of the American flag on June 14. The U.S. has celebrated the adoption of the Stars and Stripes in a variety of ways when President Woodrow Wilson ...

Former president Donald Trump hugs the American flag ahead of his remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Md., on Feb. 24. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post ...

it was draped around an Army soldier as he climbed on a helicopter from atop the U.S. Embassy in Saigon. He was among the last American troops to leave Vietnam, he said, and brought the flag that ...

The U.S. military changes its uniforms every so often. Whenever this happens, servicemembers must go out and draw or purchase new gear, including everything from new boots to new military helmet ...

About three weeks before Americans celebrate the Fourth of July comes another opportunity to pay respect to the country’s history. Flag Day celebrates the history of the U.S. flag annually on ...

A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family.

They went home with bed linens and a U.S. flag from a 1974 military funeral in Michigan. They kept the linens but hope to return the flag to the soldier ... It’s an American flag.

At the grave site, a group of soldiers fired a volley of shots and another soldier played taps on his bugle nearby. After the casket bearers folded the American flag, it was given to the mayor of ...

U.S. Marines raised an American flag on the Japanese island’s highest ... volcanic ash and black sand burying the dead. An American soldier giving a captured Japanese soldier a cigarette.

Patriotic holidays and the American flag go hand-in-hand, as many people adorn the graves of fallen soldiers with the stars and stripes. One VERIFY reader texted us a question about cleaning ...