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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

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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Vietnam war vets wanted for Veterans Day parade in Ogden

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, October 8, 2011 - 10:53pm

OGDEN -- This year's Veterans Day parade in Ogden could break some sort of record for grand marshals: Utah has more than 50,000 Vietnam War-era veterans, the Veterans Administration says, and they're all invited.

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Utah Marine killed during patrol in Afghanistan

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, August 6, 2011 - 11:23pm

VERNAL — Family and friends in Vernal are mourning the death of a 21-year-old hometown Marine.

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Thousands celebrate pioneers, service to country and community

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, July 25, 2011 - 11:47pm

OGDEN -- Beginning with a flyover by F-16 fighter jets from Hill Air Force Base, the Ogden Pioneer Days Parade set off along Washington Boulevard on Monday morning.

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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

Tamara Lush, The Associated Press The Associated Press

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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Idaho teen takes oath to heart in award-winning essay

Cody Bloomsburg, The Lewiston Morning Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, June 1, 2011 - 1:19pm

LEWISTON, Idaho -- Danny Blake didn't know what he was going to write until he was already writing.

Sometime in November, the 13-year-old was assigned to pen an essay on what patriotism meant to him for his seventh-grade geography class at Jenifer Junior High School in Lewiston. His teacher had mentioned it would be entered into the Fleet Reserve Association's essay contest, but to Blake, it was just an assignment that he wanted to get a good grade on.

He started by looking up the definition of the word in the dictionary. Three paragraphs and a few months later, he had earned $3,100 in U.S. savings bonds.

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