Wedding decor has changed a lot over the years. For the past couple of years we’ve seen a big turn towards the use of flags and banners for both indoor and outdoor decoration. Whether you’re going for a festival feeling, a soft crafty look or pulling family heritage into your decor, flags are a fun… continue
September 14 celebrates the bicentennial of “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The creation of the poem about the American flag involved coincidences, luck and deliberate decisions. A few days before he watched “the rockets’ red glare and bombs bursting in air,” Francis Scott Key had no idea he would witness the 1814 bombardment of Fort McHenry in… continue
Every year we get the same questions in regards to flag etiquette and Patriot Day (September 11th). Because we’ve become experts in this area and because we want to help better educate the public on proper flag display, we’ve gathered together the most common questions, and their answers. Q: Are flags supposed to fly at… continue
Ed Shevlin recently retired from the New York City Sanitation Department, but not from rescuing American flags tossed in the trash. “I noticed years ago a fairly high increase of U.S. flags in the garbage,” he said in an interview. “It really bothered me, so I began a campaign to save Old Glory. I’ve been… continue
Sometimes, history repeats itself in perfect intervals. For example, 2014 continues the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, marks the centenary of the First World War and begins the observance of the 75th anniversary of World War II, which broke out in 1939. Over that span, American flags were draped over the coffins of tens… continue