Veterans to celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the First U.S. Flag Raised on Iwo Jima Japan in Monticello Sunday.

A U.S. Army colonel’s great-grandson returned a “good luck” flag Wednesday to the family of a Japanese soldier who carried it ...

to affix their signatures — sometimes a little unsteadily after years of torment — to a quarter of a Japanese flag that serves as a reminder of the endurance and fortitude of American soldiers ...

Japanese troops often carried small national flags signed in ink by their friends ... “In my spiritual life, I practice the ways of my Native American ancestors,” he said during the ceremony.

012725_GC_BataanFlags02rgb.jpg An image of a quartered Japanese flag from the Fukuoka Prison Camp 17, which held soldiers who survived the Bataan Death March. Both the American flag and the piece ...