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  2. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima - Wikipedia

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    A U.S. flag was first raised atop Mount Suribachi soon after the mountaintop was captured at around 10:30 a.m. on February 23, 1945. [9] Raising the First Flag on Iwo Jima by SSgt. Louis R. Lowery, USMC, is the most widely circulated photograph of the first flag flown on Mt. Suribachi. [citation needed]

  3. Flags of Our Fathers (film) - Wikipedia

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    Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 American war drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis.It is based on the 2000 book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who were involved in raising the flag on Iwo Jima, and the after effects of ...

  4. Ensign of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Union Flag, referred to as the "Flag of America," was the de facto naval ensign of the United States until June 14, 1777, when the 13 star flag was adopted by Congress. It was first hoisted aboard Commodore Esek Hopkins' flagship Alfred on the Delaware River by Lieutenant John Paul Jones on December 3, 1775. [2]

  5. Timeline of the flag of the United States - Wikipedia

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    1963 – American Flag placed on top of Mount Everest in the Himalayas in Nepal, by Barry Bishop. 1968 – Adoption of Federal Flag Desecration Law (18 U.S.C. 700 et seq.) – Congress approved the first federal flag desecration law in the wake of a highly publicized Central Park flag burning incident in New York City in protest of the Vietnam War.

  6. Before she hoisted controversial flags, KY native ... - AOL

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    Due to highly debated flags allegedly put up by Alito, her husband, US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, has faced calls to recuse himself from potential Supreme Court cases involving the US ...

  7. Flag of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first official flag resembling the "Stars and Stripes" was the Continental Navy ensign (often referred to as the Continental Union Flag, first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) used between 1775 and 1777. It consisted of 13 red-and-white stripes, with the British Union Flag in the canton.

  8. Grand Union Flag - Wikipedia

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    The Continental Union Flag (often referred to as the first American flag, Cambridge Flag, and Grand Union Flag) was the flag of the United Colonies from 1775 to 1776, and the de facto flag of the United States until 1777, when the 13 star flag was adopted by the Continental Congress . The Continental Union Flag was so called because it combined ...

  9. Prospect Hill Flag Debate - Wikipedia

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    t. e. According to tradition, the first flag of the United States, the Grand Union Flag ("Continental Colours"), was raised by General George Washington at Prospect Hill in Somerville, Massachusetts, on 1 January 1776, in an attempt to raise the morale of the men of the Continental Army. There was a 76-foot liberty pole situated on Prospect ...