If you're headed to the beach, know what the local flag warnings mean
The flags on Corpus Christi beaches aren't there for decoration -- they let swimmers know the water conditions and possible ...
Gov. McMaster orders flags lowered to half-staff in honor of retired Marine Corps officer
Gov. Henry McMaster ordered flags on top of the State House to be lowered to half-staff on Thursday to honor retired Col.
War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon’s DEI purge
References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women ...
On Feb. 23, 1945, Marines and Navy corpsmen staked symbolic claim to victory in one phase of WWII battle
On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised two American flags. The second flag-raising was captured in an iconic photograph by Joe ...
Why are flags flying at half-staff in South Carolina?
S.C. flags will be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sundown on Thursday, March 6. McMaster ordered that flags be flown at half-staff atop the state Capitol and also requested that the flags over ...
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That iconic flag-raising on Iwo Jima? CU prof, then a Marine, saw it happen
CU Boulder distinguished professor and Marine veteran Richard Jessor reflects on what the planting of the U.S. flag on Mount Suribachi Feb. 23, 1945, meant for the country and for him personally ...
South Carolina flags will be lowered Thursday—here’s the hero being honored
Gov. Henry McMaster ordered flags at half-staff on March 6 to honor Colonel Myron Charles Harrington Jr., a decorated Marine ...
'Our town and our country': WWII Marine Michael Strank remembered on anniversary of flag raising at Iwo Jima
For Franklin Borough, the fact that one of the community's own was among the six Marines raising the American Flag in Iwo Jima during World War II is a source of pride. On Feb. 23, 1945, in Iwo Jima, ...