Some of our foreign folding friends may not be aware -- US flag etiquette requires a special fold for storing the flag. This came to mind this week because we had two days in a row when we hoisted the US flag, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Inauguration Day.

This same fold, when made from paper, is used for the game of paper football.

Happy 4th of July!

British flag

A 48-state flag, at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, PA

My first visit to Six Flags New England.

Taken during the F1 Kuala Lumpur Sepang circuit stopover 2010.

Budapest

A morning in red, white and blue! Glorious!

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The interactive themed rooms and space exhibit at the West Lawn, Gardens by the Bay during 29Rooms.

Happy Independence Day, USA. Despite its problems and scandals it's still a great country but we need to get back to the integrity that it once had.

This picture was shot at Fort Douglas, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

The red and yellow Northumbrian flag flies alongside two St George's Crosses on the southbound A1. To me, the Northumbrian flag looks like the Catalan one on the Barcelona shirt; just me then? Oh...

((Los Angeles)) • At the Grand Prix of Long Beach, where Italian-made racing chassis are mated, in part, to Japanese and English-made motors, which are then driven by drivers from various nations, through a track set up in the very multi-cultural setting of Los Angeles county - comes the American flag via a skydiver.

We got Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Japan, etc.

flags around the Washington Monument

The flag of Morocco, red with a black-bordered green pentagram.

Samyang 14mm f2.8

Arc de Triomphe

RP BIGGEST FLAG. Hundreds of young and old people help each other in unfurling the biggest Philippine flag measuring to about 100 meters by 200 meters or the world’s second largest flag next to Israel at the Athletic Bowl in Baguio City, north of Manila, Philippines, during the celebration of the 110th Independence of the country last June 12. The flag maker is evangelical Christian Grace Galindez-Gupana. – Harley Palangchao

I loved the sunlight glowing through the back of the flag. It was a mildly breezy day so it took some time to get the right composition with the flag moving around.

Lay-by on the A1

Taken at the San Diego PRIDE Parade.

July 16, 2011.

"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