American flags are made from start to finish at Allied Materials, a factory in Missouri. The process includes cutting dyed ...

In mid-June 2025, a rumor spread on social media claiming that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) shared a Flag Day post on X featuring two Russian flags.Flag Day, celebrated annually on June 14 ...

As Americans get ready to celebrate the Fourth of July, a Kansas City company is hard at work making sure the nation’s most ...

There are ways people can respectfully retire a flag without delivering it for a ceremony at an American Legion post. The DOD ...

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, ...

The U.S. Department of Defense in early 2025 removed a webpage about Ira Hayes, a Marine and Pima Nation member best known for being one of the six men who raised a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima during WWII.

The Defense Department said the removal resulted from an automated process complying with a DEI policy directive. While some pages had been restored, others remain offline, displaying server errors.

The VA’s new guidance follows a longstanding Department of Defense policy instituted during the first Trump Administration and kept in place during the Biden Administration, the Feb. 12 memo states.