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The flag of Grenada consists of two yellow triangles at the top and bottom and two green triangles at the hoist and fly. These are surrounded by a red border charged with six five-pointed yellow stars – three at the top centre and three at the bottom centre – along with an additional star on a red disc at the centre and a nutmeg at the hoist triangle. Adopted in 1974 to replace the temporary design used since the islands became an Associated State of the United Kingdom, it has been the flag of Grenada since the country gained independence that year. The representation of a nutmeg is symbolic of the islands' primary export, and was the one feature from the previous flag that was preserved.
Montréal (Plateau Mont Royal), Québec.
I’ve seen soldiers guard the tombs of the unknown warriors in Washington and Moscow, but here in Budapest, beside the Parliament Building, they walk around the National Flag. And around and around and around……..
ARLINGTON, Va.- Coast Guard Recruits look for headstones of fallen Coastguardsmen during the annual Flags Across America event at Arlington National Cemetery, Saturday, November 5, 2011. Two recruit companies visited Arlington National Cemetery for their one day of off-base liberty, which is their only break in an eight-week boot camp at the Coast Guard’s Training Center in Cape May, N.J. (U.S. Coast Guard Photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Etta Smith)
Each year in Luckenbach at their Texas Independence Day celebration, an old Texas flag is retired are replaced with a new flag. The solemn ceremony is conducted by members of the Former Texas Rangers Association while dressed in period garb. A Texas flag is lowered from a flag pole and carried, as it is being done here, to a fire pit where the star is removed and the fields of color separated. One by one as a narrator explains the significance of the colors, each field and then the star is burned in the fire. Once that is done, a new flag is unfolded, carried to the flag pole and hoisted aloft.