Declan Layton, 21, hoisted the flags six years ago to show respect for his pals in the military and to honour his late ...

also called the Grand Union Flag, aboard the warship Alfred anchored in the Delaware River. The Colonial banner, a combination of the British Union Jack and one stripe for each Colony, is adopted ...

Flags engender such loyalty and pride, they often become very personal emblems with quirky or quaint nicknames: Old Glory, Union Jack ... 4,800 did — most of them serious.