Pirate ships often flew the flag of a friendly country as they sailed toward the ship they planned to rob.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

A few days before she left, she gave a small American flag to her friend Jacqueline Cochran, another female pilot.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

Within minutes he sent the picture of the six men raising the flag to the Associated Press headquarters in New York.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

They grew up as Americans and pledge allegiance to our flag, and yet they live every day with the threat of deportation.

VOA: special.2011.02.03

I said, "I think it is." He said, "I don't like to brag, but we're kinda proud of That Ragged Old Flag."

VOA: special.2010.07.02

President Franklin Roosevelt ordered the Marine Corps to send home the men who had raised the flag.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

On second thought I do like to brag 'Cause I'm mighty proud of That Ragged Old Flag."

VOA: special.2010.07.02

They seem about to move. Their bodies push forward as they struggle to raise the flag.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

When he reached the top, Marines were tying the larger flag to a heavy pole.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Wigfall agreed. He told Anderson to lower his flag and the firing would stop.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

The soldiers appear to be walking up a hill, toward an American flag.

VOA: special.2009.05.25

The former astronaut says he would like to go back to the moon to see how the American flag he and Neal Armstrong planted there is doing.

VOA: special.2011.07.18

Fifty years have now passed without any changes to the American flag.

VOA: special.2010.04.02

He urged the Senate not to pull down the American flag.

VOA: special.2010.07.22

The excited crowd refused to recognize the white flag.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

A small American flag was sent to the top.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

He retains a strong link to the homeland of his parents, and carries the nation's flag after crucial football victories.

VOA: standard.2010.02.04

Sudanese soldiers carried Jaafar Nimeiri's flag-draped body from the presidential palace in Khartoum to a cemetery in Omdurman, the capital's sister city across the Nile river.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

As if winning medals and proposing were not enough, Demong - a four-time Olympian - was also named by his teammates to carry the U.S.flag in Sunday's Closing Ceremonies.

VOA: standard.2010.02.27

The eight-legged sea creature had two boxes to choose from - one marked with a flag from the Netherlands and another with the flag of Spain - and it was the yellow and red banner he went for.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09