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2. United States Flag Code - Wikipedia

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   The United States Flag Code establishes advisory rules for display and care of the national flag of the United States of America. It is part of Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the United States Code ( 4 U.S.C. § 5 et seq ). Although this is a U.S. federal law, [ 1] the code is not mandatory: it uses non-binding language like "should" and "custom ...

3. Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima - Wikipedia

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   The three photographers reached the summit as the Marines were attaching the flag to an old Japanese water pipe. Rosenthal put his Speed Graphic camera on the ground (set to 1/400 sec shutter speed, with the f-stop between 8 and 11 and Agfa film [40] [41]) so he could pile rocks to stand on for a better vantage point. In doing so, he nearly ...

4. 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.

5. The Soiling of Old Glory - Wikipedia

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   The Soiling of Old Glory. The Soiling of Old Glory is a Pulitzer Prize -winning photograph taken by Stanley Forman during the Boston busing crisis in 1976. [ 1] It depicts a white teenager, Joseph Rakes, assaulting a black man—lawyer and civil rights activist Ted Landsmark —with a flagpole bearing the American flag (also known as Old Glory ).

6. Flagpole of Freedom Park - Wikipedia

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   Plans called for the pole to fly "the largest American flag in the world at over 74,048 square feet — the equivalent area of almost 1 1/2 football fields." [6] The flagpole was to stand on a 315-foot hill, with a total aggregate height of 1,776 above sea level. [7] The Observation Ball deck would have offered "360 degree views in a 100-mile ...

7. List of flags of the United States - Wikipedia

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   See also: Flags of the U.S. states and territories A 2.00 m × 1.70 m oil painting showing historical US flags. This is a list of flags in the United States describing the evolution of the flag of the United States, as well as other flags used within the United States, such as the flags of governmental agencies. There are also separate flags for embassies and ships. National flags Main article ...