Saluting the American flag is about more than putting our hands to our hearts. Showing respect for our nation’s greatest symbol also means handling it with care — and there’s a method of doing so ...

You see the American flag hanging in classrooms, above porches and flying from nearly every flagpole. With 13 red and white stripes and a blue field of 50 stars, it’s a symbol for American freedom ...

Tim Haley holds an American flag folded in the traditional triangular shape, with only the blue union showing. JOE JOHNSTON [email protected] Here's a guide to folding and displaying the ...

The folding of a U.S. flag traditionally incorporates thirteen separate folds because each of the folds has a special meaning. Custom has ascribed specific meanings to each of the 13 folds applied to ...

Flying the Minnesota flag may be easier than folding it. With its blue field and the state seal superimposed in the middle, Minnesota's flag was adopted in 1893, but there is no standard about how it ...

ATLANTA— July 4th will find Atlanta cloaked in red, white, and blue, as we embrace many traditions when it comes to Old Glory. You’ve no doubt seen it at the end of the school day, or during military ...

HUNTINGTON, Utah - Don Gardner is the kind of garbage collector who will get out of his truck to bring elderly residents’ cans to the street when they forget. And when the Marine Corps veteran was ...

A group of congressmen has asked the Department of Veterans Affairs to retain the tradition of reciting the significance of each fold in the flag-folding ceremony at military funerals. "The flag ...

Vanderbilt University held a flag folding ceremony on Veterans Day for a giant American flag recently discovered during renovations. The flag was found after being hidden for years in a duffel bag. In ...