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Last updated Friday, May 18, 2012 - 8:49pm

With Memorial Day and the Fourth of July right around the corner, we're heading into a period of patriotic and historic remembrance.

As a way to recognize and celebrate the importance and meaning of these days, the Standard-Examiner will run a full-page replica of

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Flags lowered today to honor peace officers

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, May 14, 2012 - 11:17pm

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Gov. Gary R. Herbert has authorized the lowering of the flag of the United States of America and the Utah state flag today in recognition and honor of “Peace Officers Memorial Day.”

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Carter Williamson places a section of the U.S. flag into the fire during a retirement ceremony on Friday at Roy Elementary School in Roy.

VFW gives new flag to students at Roy Elementary School

Rachel J. Trotter Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, January 28, 2012 - 11:00pm

ROY -- Saying the Pledge of Allegiance was extra special for Roy Elementary students on Friday afternoon as they gathered around a crisp, colorful new U.S. flag waving on the flagpole in front of the school.

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Children's choir to sing at Veterans Day flag-raising ceremony in Riverdale

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Last updated Thursday, November 10, 2011 - 12:46am

RIVERDALE -- The Riverdale Veterans Committee is planning a flag-raising ceremony at 9 a.m. Friday. The Good Foundations Academy children's choir will perform, followed by light refreshments. The event will be held at the Veterans Memorial in front of the Riverdale Civic Center, 4600 S. Weber River Drive.

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Staff Sgt. Hazam Peralta shows fifth-grader Lukas Tibbets how to properly fold an American flag at Bluff Ridge Elementary School in Syracuse on Tuesday. Airmen from Hill Air Force Base visited fifth-graders at the school to teach them proper flag etiquette.

Fabric of our nation: Airmen teach how to treat Old Glory right

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 11:41pm

SYRACUSE -- When it comes to learning about the American flag, textbooks are good, but real-life service members are even better.

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Capt. Nancy Immormino, of the 419th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, presents a flag to Kim Wixon (left), state officer of the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home, and Terry Schow (right), executive director of the Utah Department of Veterans Affairs, on Friday at the facility in Ogden. The flag was donated after it was flown on a combat mission in an F-16 over Afghanistan.

From Afghanistan to Ogden: Flag donated to veterans home

Staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, August 20, 2011 - 12:02am

Capt. Nancy Immormino of the 419th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, presented to the George E. Wahlen Ogden Veterans Home in Ogden on Friday a flag that was flown on a combat mission in an F-16 over Afghanistan.

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Police: USU student won’t be cited for flag desecration after all

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Last updated Saturday, July 9, 2011 - 10:55pm

LOGAN — Cache County officials say a Utah State University student and a friend will not receive a citation for writing a political statement on an American flag and carrying it during a Fourth of July parade.

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(LUIS M. ALVAREZ/The Associated Press) Sylvia Wasylyk cries as she touches the National 9/11 Flag during a sewing ceremony in the Martinsburg VA Medical Center in West Virginia.

Sept. 11 flag a security blanket for wounded nation

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Last updated Friday, September 9, 2011 - 11:57am

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- Brian Tolstyka stood at the edge of a giant American flag spread across several tables in the Veterans Affairs hospital gym and prepared to stitch his place in history.

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Flag retirement ceremony planned

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 6:04am

OGDEN -- Ogden's Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 1481 has joined with Leavitt's Mortuary in Memorial Day weekend ceremonies that include a ceremony for retiring American flags.

Anyone wishing to properly retire a flag may drop it off at the VFW Post, 907 W. 12th St., or at Leavitt's Mortuary, 838 36th St.

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VFW Post schedules flag retirement day

Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 12:06am

BRIGHAM CITY -- The Veterans of Foreign War Post 1695 will hold a flag retirement ceremony at 4 p.m. April 16 at which the post will demonstrate the proper disposal of old, worn-out flags. Approximately 200 flags will be burned according to proper procedures.

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