Many tribes even have their own national anthems known as flag songs that focus on veterans. Singers sit around a drum, starting a melody and slow beat before the words of flag songs repeat. So do I,” says another composed on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota and first sung in a World War II victory celebration. The flag songs also are sung while the U.S. flag is lowered and raised on tribal land, many times by veterans and using a flag given to a deceased veteran’s family. Ira Hayes, was among the group that raised the U.S. flag at Iwo Jima in World War II.

Source: National Post November 25, 2017 18:27 UTC