Passed down after Bernard Stein's death, the flag was a remnant of World War II, brought home as a war trophy by his grandfather, who served in the US Army's 38th Infantry Division. It wasn't ...

On Oct. 3 at Pearl Harbor, the USS Missouri Memorial Association held a ceremony featuring the viewing of three yosegaki ...

U.S. flags typically fly at half-staff in the wake of national tragedies or after deaths of government officials, military ...

Governor Maura Healey announced that state and national flags will fly at half-staff in Massachusetts on Friday, Sept. 27 to honor Pvt. Kwack K. Woo of Los Angeles, California.

He discusses World War II-era munitions in "The Pacific," starring ... He compares the portrayals of the Battle of Iwo Jima in Clint Eastwood's "Flags of Our Fathers," starring Ryan Phillippe ...

The Veteran of the Month program honors deceased veterans, unaccounted POWs and MIAs, and certain merchant mariners who ...

Nebraska and Iowa are among multiple states whose governors have directed the flags to be flown at half-staff Monday to mourn ...

Gov. Tony Evers signed Executive Order #241 ordering the flags at half-staff in honor of US Army Air Force Sgt. Ralph H. Bode ...

When Scott Stein was growing up in New York, he’d often visit his grandfather on Long Island and admire a Japanese flag hanging on the wall in his den. Bernard Stein never talked about his ...

You might notice flags around Wisconsin flying at half-staff Friday. The gesture, ordered by Gov. Tony Evers, is in remembrance of a World War II veteran whose remains were recently returned home.

Bernard Stein never talked about his combat experiences in Southeast Asia during World War II, but he’d brought the flag home as a war trophy after fighting with the U.S. Army’s 38th Infantry ...