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Yahoo
27-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Local veteran honors America's heroes
POOLER, Ga. (WSAV) – A local 84-year-old veteran is honoring America's heroes with a display, one flag at a time. As you drive down U.S 80 in Pooler, across from city hall, you may have seen these flags. 'This year, I decided I wanted to do a different situation because it's the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II,' Clyde Watson said. 'It's also the 83rd anniversary of the Mighty Eighth [Air Force Museum].' It is a project he started in 2008 at the First Baptist Church of Pooler to honor veterans and service members who died for our country. He has more than a dozen state flags and all military flags, a salute to each passerby. '…everybody loves it,' Watson said. 'Everybody likes it. And I had one man to call Saturday morning. He said 'Clyde, you done a wonderful job up there.'' He said he contacts the states directly to requests flags or buys them himself when he can. 'I've had a couple of people give me some money to buy some flags, and the flags are expensive now,' Watson said. 'They're more expensive than they were when we first started and we have to buy a poll to put them on. So, we've had some few donations' It is a meaningful tradition that he hopes will remind people of the sacrifice behind our freedom. 'It is personal to me that we're able to celebrate a free United States because of what those veterans did,' he said. He said, '…it's the same thing that Jack Kennedy said, don't ask what you can what your country can do for you but ask what you can do for your country.' Watson told WSAV his work doesn't end here. 'I hope to finally get all of the state flags and maybe even get a soldier's name, so we can put it on the flag board. That's my goal,' he said. Watson said they are always looking for monetary donations to keep this tradition alive, and he is hoping to expand the display by adding more flags to the lineup. He told WSAV anyone can contact the church to make monetary donations. He told WSAV that he wants to collect all of the state flags to donate to the Mighty Eighth. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Photos: 2025 Memorial Day flag placement in Los Angeles
Boy Scouts, from Boy Scouts of America Western Los Angeles County Council, joined community members Saturday in a huge Memorial Day effort to place flags on nearly 90,000 grave sites at the Los Angeles National Cemetery. About 3,500 Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts planted 90,000 flags ahead of Monday's Memorial Day ceremony. They were instructed to plant one flag per headstone, say the name on the headstone and salute. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
The Standard
21-05-2025
- Politics
- The Standard
US intel suggests Israel preparing strike on Iran's nuclear facilities, CNN reports
Israeli and Iranian flags are seen in this illustration taken, April 24, 2024. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo
BBC News
16-05-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Downing Street should fly Middlesex flag, say Conservatives
Westminster is embroiled in another row over flags – this time over whether Downing Street should fly the county colours of previous Conservative government began a tradition in 2022 of flying the ensign on 16 May, to celebrate the historic north London county which used to include Downing the Labour government has said it has no plans to fly any county flags above the PM's official has prompted the Tories to accuse ministers of "hating anything traditional about Britain". Speaking to GB News, the party's shadow paymaster general Richard Holden said: "It saddens me that Labour are happy to fly whatever woke flag comes off their production line but when it comes to our historic county flags they are not interested." On Thursday, a Downing Street spokesperson said the prime minister "has pride in celebrating our heritage" and pointed to a St Georges Day reception he hosted last month. In response to a written parliamentary question, Cabinet Office minister Abena Oppong-Asare said: "There are currently no plans to fly county flags above Downing Street."No 10's Middlesex flag-flying tradition is not particularly long having been started during the government of Boris Johnson, whose then constituency of Uxbridge and South Ruislip sits in what used to be Day falls on the anniversary of the battle of Albuhera 1811, when the Middlesex Regiment of the British Army, along with Spanish and Portuguese soldiers, held back Napoleon's the bloody battle, the regiment's wounded commander urged his men to "die hard" - one of the earliest recorded uses of the phrase. The county of Middlesex was abolished in the 1960s when it was absorbed into Greater London, although its name still pops up in areas across north London, most notably at Middlesex County Cricket Club. The question of flag-flying above government buildings has triggered political rows in recent years. Earlier this month, Reform UK said it would only allow the union jack and St George's flag to be flown above the buildings of councils it controlled in EnglandHowever, following objections it clarified that county flags would also be allowed. Last year, Conservative MP and former Home Secretary Suella Braverman criticised the flying of the Progress Pride flag at the Home Office. Speaking at a conference in the United States, she said: "I couldn't even get the flag of a horrible political campaign I disagreed with taken down from the roof of the government department I was supposed to be in charge of."At town halls there have also been rows over decisions by local councils to fly the Palestinian or Israeli flags. The official guidance says that, where government buildings have one flagpole, the union jack should be flown every day except on certain occasions when other flags, such as the commonwealth flag or the Armed Forces Day flag are permissible. For buildings with more than one flagpole, the government guidance says the union jack should always be flown in the "superior position" for example on the highest flagpole or in the centre.
CTV News
15-05-2025
- General
- CTV News
Quebec kicks off Fête nationale celebrations
A person wears miniature Quebec flags on a hat during a Fête Nationale event in Trois-Rivières, Que., Monday, June 24, 2024. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press) (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)
