The U.S.S. Reno flag was anonymously returned with a note that said it “needed protecting.” By Jenny Gross When people broke into City Hall in Reno, Nev., this weekend during protests against ...

By Andrew Paul MeleSpecial to the Advance STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Flag Day, on June 14, commemorates the adoption of the flag on this date in 1777 by resolution of the Second Continental Congress.

Years after I moved away from my childhood home on Boland Avenue in Hanover Township, I learned a fellow resident of the same street fought on Iwo Jima and the Pacific theater during World War II.

A historic American flag that was originally flown at half-mast to mark the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has ...

When the Army wouldn't provide them with one, then-Lt. Sam Lombardo and his men made their own American flag during the Battle of the Bulge in World War II.

The flags honor Virginia’s war dead dating back to World War II. Caez and 24 or of his Delta Co. battle buddies and more than 100 others volunteered for the task. (photo by T. Anthony Bell).