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Soldiers from the U.S. Army 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard), along with service members from all armed forces service branches, place over 265,000 U.S. flags at every gravesite, columbarium court column, and niche wall column as part of Flags-In at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, May 27, 2021.
For more than 50 years, soldiers from The Old Guard have honored our nation’s fallen military heroes by placing U.S. flags at the gravesites of service members buried at both Arlington National Cemetery and the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home National Cemetery just prior to the Memorial Day weekend. For the first time in 20 years, members from the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Coast Guard placed flags alongside soldiers from The Old Guard across the 639 acres of Arlington National Cemetery.
(U.S. Army photos by Elizabeth Fraser / Arlington National Cemetery / released)
This was taken in front of the medical center in Morrilton, Arkansas. The community puts these flags out every patriotic holiday. Each one has the name of someone who has served in our armed forces. Thank God for those who have defended our freedom!
Third National, US, NC
The third national flag was adopted March 4, 1865, just before the fall of the Confederacy. The red vertical stripe was proposed by Major Arthur L. Rogers, who argued that the pure white field of the second national flag could be mistaken as a flag of truce. When hanging limp in no wind, the flag's Southern Cross canton could accidentally stay hidden, so the flag could mistakenly appear all white.
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)
119 flags to represent all the nations who have a diplomatic presence in the Qatari Capital.
Flag Plaza - Doha, Qatar.
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
'#Flag of #Estonia' 2016 #national #colours #black #blue #white #jar #food #products #marzipan #bread #flour #art
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.
I've decided to (take the massive task of) redesigning flags - I know, I know, you're welcome : )
Anyway, I realise this could be a risky challenge to set myself, so please, don't hate mail me, saying that, I do want to know your reactions and thoughts, good or otherwise...
Antarctica - it's melting, needs help.
Anyway, what'd you think?
Oh - just incase you don't know what the original looked like - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Antarctica
WWII Bomber flight officer’s family honored by Georgia Guardsmen
November 16, 2014
STORY AND PHOTOS BY STAFF SGT. TRACY J. SMITH
OGLETHORPE ARMORY, Ellenwood, Ga., Nov. 16, 2014 – The family of U.S. Army Flight Officer Frank J. Pryor, Jr. were honored at a small ceremony hosted by the 348th Brigade Support Battalion, Sunday, as part of the unit’s ongoing Veterans Day recognition activities.
Pryor, an Atlanta native, was assigned to the 213th of the Army Air Corps’ Gowen Field, Idaho in 1945.
Nearly six-decades later the 348th BSB ‘Trailblazers’ and the Army’s Survivor’s Outreach Services would recognize the Pryor family with the presentation of a Quilt of Valor and Gold Star Service flag.
Such formal presentations are not common for the SOS program but the Pryor family reached out to representatives, who manage the program from the Georgia National Guard’s Oglethorpe Armory, wanting to share their collection of the elder Pryor’s military history with the Georgia Guardsmen who serve today.
On display were the letters and other items Mrs. Dora Pryor, the widow of FO Pryor, had begun to collect for her son, along with the telegraph formally notifying her of her husband’s death and a hand crafted flag that was flown over the White House prior to being placed on the deceased flight officer’s casket as was the tradition of that time.
In 1945 the flag contained only 48 stars as Alaska and Hawaii would not join the Union until almost 15-years later.
Although Pryor did not lose his life in the throes of war the crew was preparing for their deployment to take the fight to the air in Europe and this flight was part of that February training mission. Returning from Utah and nearing their home station, a sudden blizzard would impede navigation and visibility and be the demise of the B-24J bomber ‘The Liberator’ finding its final resting place on Mt. Harrison.
Search and rescue efforts took days as the weather proved hazardous for horse mounted teams combing the frigid mountainside.
Pryor and his young wife, Dora, were newlyweds and, with the flight initially being reported as missing she began to keep a diary and news clippings as the teams continued their search.
She would cling to hope of his, and the crews, survival as she had not shared the news of her pregnancy with her husband.
Eight days later the plane and crew were found and the young, newlywed mother would then find herself in the unexpected role of widow.
In late February, preparing to return to Atlanta, she penned, ‘felt so alone going home.’
Months later she gave birth to Frank Pryor III and he would grow up reading his mother’s diary, caring for the photos and mementos of letters, telegraphs and clippings she collected and adding to them as the Liberator’s crew were honored and remembered throughout the years.
“This is our opportunity to embrace our (Georgia) Guard family here in Ellenwood,” Gladys Portwine, one of the SOS Support Coordinators based at the Ellenwood Armory and a retired Georgia Army National Guard Command Sgt. Major. “We encourage our survivor families to continue to be a part of their communities and the unique story of the prior family during the commemorations of Veterans Day gave us that common ground to shine a positive light on our role in these families’ lives.”
The son of Frank, Jr. and Dora was open, honored and smiling as he shared his father’s story with the Warriors at Oglethorpe.
Standing beside a prominent portrait of his father a hint of red was seen at the corner of his smile when it was pointed out how striking the resemblance of him and the young flight crewman.
Now in his 60s, the son feels closer than ever to the father he has never met.
“My dad will always be 22-years old,” Pryor said. “When we finally meet he will probably have a laugh when he looks at me and says ‘so that’s what I was supposed to look like.’ “
Dora reached out to the other crew members’ families throughout the years never wanting to lose the bond of service to country that has been untethered throughout the ages.
“Those letters that she wrote and relationships she maintained are probably the most valued of all the things she collected for me,” Pryor stated as he thumbed through a scrapbook of memories with the Soldiers.
“We honor the Pryor’s for their sacrifices and allowing us to share (FO Pryor’s) history,” Lt. Col. Thomas Meeks, 348th BSB Battalion Commander explained to the audience prior to the presentations. “Today is our way of reassuring the family of our fallen brother that as American Soldiers, today, we will always honor those who came before us.”
Flag Day, or Dia de la Bandera, in Mexico symbolizes the pride that Mexicans have in their flag. Although they were colonized by Spain in the 1500s, the deep running pride for their country remains the same. The origin of the flag comes from the Aztecs, who believed that when they found the eagle perched on a nopal (prickly pear cactus) with a serpent in his talons that is where they were supposed to settle. That’s exactly what they did! The flags colors are green, white, and red. The green stands for hope and victory, and white stands for purity, and the red band represents the blood that was shed by their ancestors. The eagle on the cactus with the snake sits in the middle of the white band. Flag day is a day that Mexicans take to remember their country and how it came into being. In the schools, they teach the children about the origins of the flag and the nation anthem, and they often focus on the subject via TV shows and special programs.