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Tiananmen Square flag at full-mast. Upon marching out of the Tiananmen Gate and the Golden Water Bridge, following the sounding of a fanfare, the unit commander for the Beijing Garrison Honor Guard Battalion orders the unit to begin goosestepping in slow time, when it crosses the bridge, it returns to its normal pace and splits off to have two formations on each side of the flagpole while the ...
Comment (Really, a bit of trivia:) In the US Army usage I remember, for morning flag-raising, the sequence goes: Reveille, morning gun, To the Color. The hoist commences at the first note of To the Color, with the flag reaching the top of its staff or pole at the last note.
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 04:22, 24 January 2009: 881 × 1,358, 56 pages (988 KB): FieldMarine {{Information |Description={{en|1=This Congressional publication briefly describes the history of the flag, and sets forth the practices and observances appropriate to its display.}} |Source=U.S. Government Printing Office |Author=U.S. Congress |Date=Apri
Posting the colors requires that a color guard team move the colors (usually the American flag, the state flag, the service flag, and the unit flag) from a carried position and placed into a stand. This formality is normally done at events such as graduation ceremonies and public events.
Municipal flag of Maribojoc, Bohol: Stripe of green, white, and blue with a sun in the middle bearing the silhouette of a church Municipal flag of San Mateo, Rizal: Light sky blue field with a white stripe on the center bearing an eight-pointed sun and a palm frond Municipal flag of Bustos, Bulacan: 1995–present Flag of Cavite City: Flag of ...
A flag anthem is a patriotic song or ode dedicated to a flag, usually one of a country (in which case it is also known as a national flag anthem).It is often either sung or performed during or immediately before the raising or lowering of a flag during a ceremony.
The flags are the current flag of the Russian Federation, the flag of the Russian Empire and the flag of the Soviet Union. [3] The raising of the flags marked the following anniversaries: [4] 330th anniversary of Peter the Great's tricolour; 165 years of Tsar Alexander II's Flag of the Russian Empire; 100 years of the institution of the Red flag
The superintendent also argued separation of church and state, stating the flag is devoid of religious significance and does not involve any religious ceremony, and that giving the JWs right to exemption would disrupt school discipline and demoralize the rest of the school population, which by far constitutes the great majority.