The Phenomenon of Betsy Ross
January first is usually marked on the calendar as New Year’s Day designating the beginning of each new year. It...
January first is usually marked on the calendar as New Year’s Day designating the beginning of each new year. It...
It has been close to a century and a half since Abraham Lincoln died at an assassin’s hand, and Americans...
Many of you may have noticed that the flags have been flown at half-staff in the last week or so,...
The U.S. Flag Code, the official list of rules for civilian flag display, includes a list of holidays when it...
When Lincoln raised the flag over Independence Hall on Washington’s Birthday in 1861 (See Flag-Post.com article for December 12, 2012),...
A few flags have stories that make them famous. Although it is largely unknown today, one Confederate flag gained wide...
Nothing seems to invoke feelings of freedom and patriotism for American citizens as much as the red white and blue....
With Lincoln’s election to the U.S. Presidency, state legislatures in the slaveholding south met to declare their secession from the...
My last Flag-Post.com article considered the rule in the U.S. Flag Code, “The flag should never touch anything beneath it,...
While still a small boy I learned my first rule of flag display as I waved a small handheld flag...
My wife and I have been talking about politics lately. This may sound like a simplistic statement, but if you...
There’s a path that leads from our backyard to the property of an older gentleman. There’s no fence dividing our...
It’s football season. I can smell it in the air. There’s a dairy farm not far from my house that...
After a couple years of floating around, not sure of what I really want to do with my life, I’ve...
Colonial Flag is excited to sponsor the 11th Annual Healing Field® Flag Display in tribute to those men, women and...
Ever wonder, while hoisting your flag up the flagpole, what the oldest flag in the world is? I did, but...
Colonial Flag is happy to be one of the largest providers of American flags and flag poles in America, but...
For the first time in my life, my dad’s side of the family came to Utah. Since my parents moved...
Every year Healing Field Flag Displays spring up all over the country. They don’t, however, appear spontaneously like mushrooms popping...
While growing up we only knew one thing about caring for a flag and that was that we should never...
Take every opportunity to fly a flag. At Colonial Flag we specialize in custom flags and flag poles. If you...
The unthinkable has happened again. A deranged shooter in a packed theater auditorium and the nation mourns. We lowered flags...
We humans attach great meaning to planting our flags in documenting our travels. In centuries past explorers raised their flags...
As we get closer and closer to the Olympics and coverage of the US athletes dominates more and more of...
While in high school we students can get very defensive of our mascots. Mascots are often a group of people...