The woman often credited with sewing the first national U.S. flag — at the request of George Washington himself, her ...

Amidst protests and parades, this year’s Flag Day puts a unique focus on the nation’s preeminent symbol, one that signifies the changing nature of the nation as well as freedom’s deep roots in the ...

The “appeal to heaven” or pine ... This flag represents our nation’s early naval history and was flown by six New England schooners commissioned under the authority of George Washington ...

The Nov. 5 ballot question is simple enough: “Do you favor making the former state flag, replaced as the official flag of the State in 1909 and commonly known as the Pine Tree Flag ... War when it ...

We don’t appeal to the government…” This is called the Pine Tree flag, and it dates back to the Revolutionary War, when it was flown on naval vessels under George Washington’s command.

which also features a pine tree on a light background. The Appeal to Heaven flag originally flew over George Washington's ships during the Revolutionary War but has since been co-opted by ...

The “Appeal to Heaven” or pine tree flag is in focus ... Alito for flying the Appeal to Heaven flag at his vacation home in New Jersey. Alito countered that his wife chose the flag as a tribute to ...

And in Maine, voters will decide in the general election whether to adopt a revamped design depicting a pine tree ... colors that Gen. George Washington selected for the flag of Army regiments ...

(undefined) There is a scene in Stan Freberg’s classic 1961 comedy album, a spoof on early American history, in which George ... the state flag revert to the symbol of a pine tree that ...

And it falls during Flag Week, after another congressional dictum in 1966. A Pine Tree flag, a symbol originally ... of Flag Day involves a man named George Morris who organized such a ...

What is most galling is the pile-on over not just this manufactured controversy, but the earlier controversy over flags. Years ago, one of the best reporters at the Washington Post investigated a ...