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Soldiers from the 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), along with service members from the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Coast Guard, place U.S. flags at every gravesite at Arlington National Cemetery as part of Flags-In, Arlington, Va., May 26, 2022.
On this day, over 1,000 service members placed flags at more than 250,000 headstones and at the bottom of about 7,000 niche rows at Arlington National Cemetery and the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery.
(U.S. Army photo by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery/released)
Every day as the sun sets, the flag is lowered at Minzu Guang Chang (Nationality Sqaure). The music is the Chinese National Anthem, which is called the March of the Volunteers. I'm guessing we'll all hear a lot of it during the Olympics as Chinese athletes attempt to take first place on the medal table for the first time.
The words to the national anthem are as follows:-
起来！不愿做奴隶的人们！ Arise! All who refuse to be slaves!
把我们的血肉，筑成我们新的长城！ Let our flesh and blood become our new Great Wall!
中华民族到了最危险的时候， As the Chinese nation faces its greatest peril,
每个人被迫着发出最后的吼声。 All forcefully expend their last cries.
起来！起来！起来！ Arise! Arise! Arise!
我们万众一心， Our million hearts beat as one,
冒着敌人的炮火，前进！ Brave the enemy's fire, March on!
冒着敌人的炮火，前进！ Brave the enemy's fire, March on!
前进！前进！进！ March on! March on! On!
Antique 13 star wool flag from the early 20th century. Cotton stars are sewn on with zig zag machine stitching. Two brass grommets are in the cotton heading. GCWCS_fall_2010
Photos from the National Baseball Congress World Series on July 26, 2015. Please do not repost photos anywhere without permission. Thank you! ©Laura Hanenkamp
Location: Tiananmen Square (Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng, 天安门广场), Beijing (Běijīng Shì (北京市), People’s Republic of China (Zhōnghuá Rénmín Gònghéguó, 中华人民共和国)
There was a flag competition in Australia for a new flag. I liked this one. We still have the original with Union Jack in corner.
The Aboriginal flag of Australia is very similar to this. The difference is that instead of a map of Australia in the centre there is a symbol of the sun.
The Aborigines of Australia are still waiting for an apology from the Australian government for the horrific treatment of Aborigines at the hands of white settlers in Australia then and now.
Apologies re copyright.
UPDATE : Thanks to the new Labor government an apology has finally been made.
Each year over 37,000 flags are placed on the Boston Common in memory of Massachusetts residents lost in all wars since the American Revolution. I took this image with my iPhone several years ago, but it still remains one of my favorites.
Artist: Penny Robson
as a child, the artist loved the bright colours of the paper flags she used to decorate sand castles. This gorilla features the flags of the ten nations of Africa where gorillas can be found.
Hag says: I can only discover nine of those nations (and I don't know which are their flags!): Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Guinea, Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda and Zaire.
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