December 2025 – February 2026 Winter Issue

Holidays to Display Flag

  • Dec 7 – National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (1/2 staff until sunset)
  • Dec 13 – U.S. National Guard Birthday
  • Dec 20 – U.S. Space Force Birthday
  • Dec 25 – Christmas Day
  • Jan 1 – New Year’s Day
  • Jan 19 – Martin Luther King Jr Day
  • Feb 12 – Lincoln’s Birthday
  • Feb 16 – President’s Day

And other days as may be proclaimed by the President of the United States

Non-Flag Display Days

  • Dec 3 – First Sunday of the Advent
  • Dec 4 – Hannukah Begins
  • Dec 8, 1941 – War Declared on Japan
  • Dec 10 – Human Rights Day
  • Dec 11, 1941 – Germany and Italy Declared War on U.S.
  • Dec 12 – Hannukah Begins
  • Dec 15, 2011 – Iraq War Ended
  • Dec 15 – Bill of Rights Day
  • Dec 20, 1989 – Panama Campaign Began
  • Dec 21 – Winter Begins
  • Dec 31 – New Year’s Eve
  • Dec 31, 1946 – Official End To WWII
  • Dec 31, 2013 – Kosovo Campaign Ended
  • Jan 6 – Epiphany (Traditional)
  • Jan 17, 1991 – Persian Gulf War Began
  • Jan 27, 1973 – Signing of Vietnam Peace Accord
  • Jan 31, 1990 – Panama Campaign Ended
  • Feb 1 – National Freedom Day
  • Feb 2 – Groundhog Day
  • Feb 3 – Four Chaplains Day
  • Feb 8, 1910 – Boy Scouts of America Founded
  • Feb 14 – St. Valentines Day
  • Feb 17 – Shrove Tuesday/Marti Gras
  • Feb 18 – Ash Wednesday
  • Feb 20 – National Caregiver’s Day
  • Feb 22 – George Washington Birthday (actual)

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