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The Flag Raising Ceremony is a traditional military ceremony of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China which is done publicly in Tiananmen Square, a public square located in the capital of Beijing. The tradition started in 1954 under Mao Zedong.
The flag is raised in a solemn and timed motion so that it reaches the top of the flagpole as the anthem ends. The main flag raising ceremony is held annually on 17 August to commemorate Independence day. The ceremony is led by the President of Indonesia and is usually held in Merdeka Palace.
The flag raising ceremony follows the arrivals, but unlike the normal ceremony the color guard company, as a 21-gun salute is fired by the gunners of the State Honors Artillery Battery of the Beijing Garrison Command, marches off from the sides of the Monument to the People's Heroes, forms up, and takes its place at the center of the grounds ...
The highlight was the raising of six American flags outside a former church building. Rev. Benson Okpara of St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Plain Township, was among the six flag raisers.
U.S. first lady Jill Biden attended a flag-raising ceremony at UNESCO in Paris on Tuesday, marking Washington's official reentry into the U.N. agency after a controversial five-year hiatus. The ...
Honor Guard members of the Glenn M. Sickles Post 34 of Kennewick & Pasco American Legion unfold a new U.S. Flag during a Veterans Day ceremony by the Tri-Cities Chaplaincy in Richland.
World War II had multiple notable flag planting incidents, including those by American soldiers on Iwo Jima, [1] by Finnish soldiers on the Three-Country Cairn, [2] and by Soviet soldiers over the Reichstag. [3] The capture of Umm al-Rashrāsh (modern day Eilat) in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War was marked by the raising and planting of the Ink ...
Husein Mutahar, founder of Paskibraka. Major Husein Mutahar of the Indonesian Navy was the one who in August 1946, just as the Indonesian National Revolution was raging, oversaw the first national flag raising ceremony on the 17th that month in Yogyakarta in commemoration of the 1st anniversary of national independence, presided by President Sukarno at the Gedung Agung Palace.