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Showing results 1 - 10 of 31 for the tag: flags.
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Flags: collectibles that are keys to art and politics (9/28/08)
When seven-year-old Tom Carrier watched the 1963 televised funeral of the assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy what caught young Carrier’s eye was not the black-draped caisson or the rider-less horse, boots inserted backwards in the stirrups, or the color guard – it was the solider marching behind the coffin with the Presidential flag.
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The 51-Star Flag of the United States (8/4/08)
 It is the longest-serving national flag of the United States. Since July 4, 1960, after the addition of Hawaii as the 50th state, the flag of the United States with its 50 stars has served longer than the 48-star flag, the national standard from 1912 to 1959.
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Desecrate the American Flag? Free Speech or Offensive? (7/4/08)
 “The Congress and the states shall have power to prohibit the physical desecration of the flag of the United States”
For the amendment:
In his dissenting opinion in Texas v. Johnson, the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote,
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Origin of Flag Day (6/14/08)
 “Resolved, That the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” Second Continental Congress, June 14, 1777.
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The Royal Flags and Honors of Queen Elizabeth II (5/14/08)
 Her formal title is “Her Majesty, Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith.” She ascended the throne after the death of her father, King George VI on February 6, 1952 and her Coronation followed on June 2, 1953.
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