mimicking the appearance of a flag flying on a pole. This tradition was officially incorporated into US military uniform regulations in 2003. Unlike an inverted flag, which signals distress ...

The importance of the flag in military culture ... flag during a last stand at an overrun military facility is secreted in the gold ball atop the flag pole or buried near the pole's base.

THE USO IS GRANTING CHRISTMAS WHICH IS FOR MILITARY CHILDREN THIS YEAR. KAI REED WAS IN ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY WHERE WORKERS SET UP A NORTH POLE AT FORT MEADE. IT IS CHRISTMAS HERE. SURPRISE.

He served 28 years in the military and he knows how important it is to get a new flag pole to fill the centerpiece of the memorial. "All the sacrifice of the personnel around me. The bricks that ...