Is Flag Day 2025 a federal holiday? No. Flag Day is not considered a federal holiday. Is mail delivered on Flag Day, June 14, 2025? Yes. Mail should be delivered like any other da ...

A flag resolution was adopted 248 years ago, on June 14, 1777, that said, "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of 13 stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be 13 stars, ...

At Anniston Army Depot, the American flag is displayed on the flag pole in front of the Headquarters building. Per U.S. Army Regulation 840-10, Chapter Two, Section Two, ...

The Army preferred its regimental flags on the battlefield instead of the Stars and Stripes. A popular form of the U.S. flag that was used in battle had the obverse (front) of the Great Seal in ...

Greg Smith, of LaGrange, used more than 10,000 plastic green Army men to create an American flag. The Army men figures were painted red, white and blue and he glued them together in the shape of ...

He stepped off a C-17 Globemaster III the night he arrived to see the American flag flying on the airfield. "I remember not knowing what to expect going into combat," Daniels recalled.

As time passed, reveille came to signify when the flag was raised in the morning and honors paid to it, according to Army Field Manual 3-21.5. Retreat has always been at sunset.

Before Pearl Harbor, for example, the Baltimore Afro-American successfully protested a plan to use the flag as the insignia of Army quartermasters stationed in Virginia at the base named for ...