Lonnie Bunch receives Dooms Day Flag from White House for Display In Smithsonian American Museum of History
By Mona Austin When a soldier dies in battle over seas , their remains are returned to their families. The remains of a war-torn flag were returned to the American family on Thursday at the White House. The Prime Minister of the Netherlands, Mark Rutte and a Dutch collector presented the flag to Pres. Donald Trump in an East Room ceremony75 years after Normandy. The tattered, 48-star flag was turned over to the Smithsonian Museum of American History for future display. Its battle scars included frayed edges and a hole in the middle that is believed to be a bullet hole from a German machine gun. It had flown on the stern of a Navy ship carrying the first U.S. troops to Normandy, France, on D-Day during World War II and was donated to the United States by a Dutch businessman and collector. “It is my honor to welcome this great American flag back home,” Trump said on receiving the gift. Rutte expressed gratitude for U.S. force...