Service Flag Graphics 2007-07-14 My brother's unit, C Company, 7th Battalion, 101st Airborne Regiment, formerly the 50th Medical Company (Air Ambulance), IS CURRENTLY DEPLOYED on their third tour of duty in the Middle East. All I can says is this: Be careful, guys.

Steven G. Simpson SGT, U.S. Army

I have prepared the following graphic images of Service Flags. Anyone is free to use them on any web site or other publication to show their pride in family members who are in the military service.

The tradition of flying the Service Flag started informally back in World War I, and was later formalized during World War II. The flags were, unfortunately, not popular during the Vietnam War, but a lot of people started showing them again during Desert Storm.

www.serviceflags.com sells the actual flags which you can hang in your front window, and they have more information about the history of the flags.

Each star on the flag represents a service member. A Blue Star represents a soldier, sailor, or airman who is currently in the service. A Gold Star is placed over the blue star in the event that the service member dies in the service. For flags with multiple stars, any Gold Stars must be placed above any Blue Stars.

The files are here for anybody who wants to use them. All I ask is that you not link to the images on my server- please download the images you need (they're small, the largest is less than 10K) and host them on the server where you have your web pages. For copyright purposes, these flag images are explicitly placed in the public domain.

The images are available in two sizes. The large ones are 576x1089 pixels, and the small ones are 80x151 pixels (which you see on this web page.) All images are PNG files with 24-bit color.

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Copyright 1995-2008 John M. Simpson KG4ZOW <jms1@spamcop.net> (PGP key)
Last updated 2007-07-14 21:15:42 -0400