The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

It was the day before poson. We were travelling from Nilaweli to Trincomalee, when I saw two soldiers at a roadside bunker. There was a small hut and the men were raising a Buddhist flag. That was one ...