He says the flag lapel pins in his collection don’t really date back before mid-century. “I don’t think it was a common thing for men and women to wear before the Second World War,” he says.

Donald Trump’s campaign is billing it as a must-have fashion accessory for his supporters: an American flag lapel pin with the former president’s name scrawled in gold block letters across ...

Lyndon Johnson wore a pin indicating he had won a Silver Star during World War II. ... The great national show of patriotism following 9/11 made flag lapel pins practically mandatory.

The lapel pin started as a Republican gesture; after Sept. 11, politicians from both parties donned the pins as symbols of patriotism and solidarity. Today, a simple American flag is just the ...

New Rule: Show me a man wearing an American flag pin in his lapel, and I'll show you an asshole. I'm sure there are exceptions, but in general people need to remember that lapels aren't for ...

Flag pins proliferated in the days following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, as a way of showing patriotism. As years have gone by, however, flag pin shave become less prevalent.

In contrast, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United States in April, photos from the Oval Office show Trump in his trademark blue suit, with an American flag lapel pin — but ...

Thus spawned the false claim about ABC News enacting a new policy banning lapel pins in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that claimed the lives of nearly 3,000 people.

Democrat Barack Obama stops wearing the American flag lapel pin, ... Since 2001, Obama said, more than 580,000 reservists have been activated, a level not seen since World War II.

Almost every candidate who took the stage Wednesday night at the GOP primary debate wore a flag pin on their lapel – but one candidate went a step further, and wore two.

From the world's most powerful people, to a young, ... Richard Nixon was the first president to consistently wear the flag lapel pin and the trend took off after September 11, 2001.