Retired Sergeant First Class Joy Marver, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during a rocket attack in Iraq, was laid off last month.

Flying the American flag upside down is often done during times of distress or unrest. An American flag was hung upside down over El Capitan in Yosemite National Park over the weekend to protest the ...

Flying a flag upside down is traditionally a sign of "dire distress," the United ... which are every American’s properties," Gavin Carpenter, a Yosemite maintenance mechanic and disabled ...

By Michael Levenson A small group of protesters hung an inverted American flag — historically used as a sign of distress — off the side of El Capitan, a towering rock formation in Yosemite ...

Hundreds peacefully protested the impacts to the National Park Service outside the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center at Rocky ...

“National Park Service rangers have pulled off a brilliant action in Yosemite Park on El Capitan by deploying a massive American flag upside down in the traditional sign of distress or extreme ...

Pfleger announced the church would fly the American flag upside-down: traditionally a sign of distress. Organizers said the upside-down flag is a symbol that America is in a state of emergency ...

In a sign of protest, an American flag was hanging upside down on El Capitan this past weekend at Yosemite National Park. This photo was taken by Brittany Colt/brittanycolt.com or on Instagram ...

On Feb. 23, 1945, six Marines teamed up for what would become one of the most iconic photos in American history. Marines fighting on Iwo Jima scaled Mount Suribachi and worked together to push up ...

So did the American public, who understood the importance ... who interpreted the flag-raising as a sign that the Pacific war was almost over. However, fighting continued for several more months ...

But this year’s visitors witnessed more than firefall on February 22. They also saw an upside-down American flag, which Yosemite employees reportedly hung over the side of El Capitan to protest ...