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Honoring our Veterans
Members of the 511th Military Police Platoon and SETAF Carabinieri (Camp Darby Detachment) conduct a flag raising and lowering ceremony with a flag sent by Wayne Lohmoeller. His father was stationed at Camp Darby in the early 1950’s and his son wanted to present him with a U.S. flag that had actually been flown at Camp Darby for his father’s 80th birthday. (Photo by Joyce Costello, USAG Livorno public Affairs)
"Blue Flag" 2019
"Blue-Flag” 2019 is a biannual international aerial training exercise hosted by the IAF. Air forces from the United States, Italy, Greece and Germany simulated extreme combat scenarios in realistic settings with the IAF.
The current exercise was the first exercise in which the "Adir" (F-35I) aircraft participated.
Photography: Amit Agronov
״בלו-פלאג״ 2019 הוא תרגיל אווירי בין-לאומי שנערך על ידי חיל האוויר הישראלי. לאורך התרגיל, חילות האוויר של ארה״ב, איטליה, יוון, וגרמניה דימו תרחישי לחימה קיצוניים וטיסה בקואליציה באופן המציאותי ביותר עם חיל-האוויר הישראלי.
התרגיל הנוכחי היה הראשון שבו השתתפו מטוסי ה"אדיר" (F-35I).
צילום: עמית אגרונוב
American Civil War re-enactors parading the Union Flag. Prior to 1863 the flag had 34 stars, then West Virginia separated from Virginia to join the Union and a 35th star was added.
There was an array of signs out in the Saturday afternoon sun, from basic ones telling Mubarak to "get out" to more complex signs surveying the history of the American and egyptian presidents since the '80s (5 for America, 1 for Egypt).
Mill Road Bridge, Cambridge. The metal sides of the bridge were painted with flags in a community youth project back in the summer of 2006.
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Just a fun one today (and as I've nothing better to post!). Wonder what his car looks like. Netherfield, Milton Keynes, 8 Jun 2010.
The Grand Union Flag (also the Continental Colors, the Congress Flag, the Cambridge Flag, and the First Navy Ensign) is considered to be the first national flag of the United States. This flag consisted of 13 red and white stripes with the British Union Flag of the time (prior to the inclusion of St. Patrick's cross of Ireland) in the canton.
In the first year of the American War for Independence, the Continental Congress authorized the creation of a navy. A new flag was required representing the Congress and fledgling nation, and distinguishing from the Red Ensign flying from British vessels.
Plaque dates flag to January 2, 1776
historic American flags, always flown at San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza
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My travels around the UK by car for three weeks with my son. June/July 2019 England.
On a visit to Pendennis Castle. We are staying at River Valley County Park, Relubbus, Cornwall and travelling around the area.
Pendennis Castle is an artillery fort constructed by Henry VIII near Falmouth, Cornwall, England between 1540 and 1542. It formed part of the King's Device programme to protect against invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire, and defended the Carrick Roads waterway at the mouth of the River Fal.
Pendennis Castle is located at the end of a peninsula, overlooking Carrick Roads and the sea. It includes the original 16th-century Device Fort, surrounded by a ring of outer defences, based on the Elizabethan ramparts and later adapted during the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Further gun batteries and a blockhouse are located closer to the shore. The heritage agency Historic England considers Pendennis to be "one of the finest examples of a post-medieval defensive promontory fort in the country", demonstrating a long history of different defensive approaches, and English Heritage describes the site as "one of the finest surviving examples of a coast fortress in England"
For More Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendennis_Castle
Indonesian flag hoisting at Jakarta's Art Gallery. I'm waiting for the winds to blow off, and this is what i can get.
Coombe Hill in the Chiltern Hills provides the backdrop to Ellesborough Church's tower. Open a number of Sundays the tower provides wide ranging views of the Chilterns and the Vale of Aylesbury. The Coombe Hill Monument to the Second Boer War Memorial is just visible on the skyline.
The flag of Germany is a tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: black, red and gold.
The Black tricolour first appeared in the early 19th century and achieved prominence during the 1848 revolution. The short-lived Frankfurt Parliament of 1848–50 proposed the tricolour as a flag for a united and democratic German state. With the formation of the Weimar Republic after World War I, the tricolour was adopted as the national flag of Germany. Following World War II, the tricolour was designated as the flag of both West and East Germany. The two flags were identical until 1959, when communist symbols were added to the East German flag. Since reunification on 3 October 1990, the black-red-gold tricolour has remained the flag of Germany.
The flag of Germany has not always used black, red and gold as its colours. After the Austro–Prussian War in 1866, the Prussian-dominated North German Confederation adopted a tricolour of black-white-red as its flag. This flag later became the flag of the German Empire, formed following the unification of Germany in 1871, and was used until 1918. Black, white and red were reintroduced as the German national colours with the establishment of Nazi Germany in 1933.
The colour schemes of black-red-gold and black-white-red have played an important role in the history of Germany and have had various meanings. The colours of the modern flag are associated with the republican democracy formed after World War II, and represent German unity and freedom: not only the freedom of Germany, but also the personal freedom of the German people.