Save the Flags was honored to host Brent and Angel Sible for a visit to the flag storage unit at the state museum on February 14th.

Director VanAcker was honored to address a meeting of the Michigan State University Retirees Association. The February 10, 2025 presentation/book signing focused on Lansing and the Civil War and the battle flag collection.

On Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 22 students from Eaton Rapids Intermediate Elementary School visited the flag storage unit.

State Capitol docent, Ed Karmann and his wife Linda (who also is a docent at the Hall of Justice Learning Center) recently made a donation to Save The Flags of an important artifact and have also donated funds to adopt the regimental flag of the Fourteenth Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

Save the Flags is honored to acknowledge the following recent donations and adoptions.

Save The Flags film crew were at a Western Theatre battlefield on December 14th, 2024 at Stones River National Battlefield in Tennessee.

December 11, 2024, Save the Flags was in South Carolina at the Beaufort National Cemetery.

Tuesday, December 10, 2024, was spent filming at the Battleground site of Bentonville, North Carolina. For three days, March 19-21, 1865, 80,000 American soldiers (60,000 Union, 20,000 Confederates) fought toe to toe in the storm of death amongst the fields and plantations of Bentonville.

This week Save the Flags is at the eastern battlefields filming for our upcoming documentary/film!

On Wednesday, December 4, 2024, students from Wilcox Elementary School in Holt, Michigan visited the flag storage unit.

On Tuesday, November 12, 2024 Mr. Scott Schwander testified before the Michigan State Senate Transportation Committee on SB30, a bill to designate a portion of M-22 as the “Company K Indian Veterans 1^st Michigan Sharpshooters Civil War Memorial Highway.”

Save the Flags was honored to attend a very solemn Veteran’s Day ceremony at Elmwood Cemetery in Detroit on November 11^th, 2024.

On October 31, 2024, STF hosted a visit to the archival flag storage facility for friends and supporters from the Court House Square Museum in Charlotte, Michigan.

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of David Difatta, supporter of Save The Flags and most importantly a friend to all who had the pleasure of meeting and knowing him.

Save the Flags had the opportunity of accompanying a MIARNG mission to East Jordan, Michigan on October 29, 2014.

Save The Flags was honored to host a meeting of the White Hills book club at our Heritage Hall Welcome Center at the Capitol on Tuesday, October 22.

On Thursday, October 3, 2024, Mr. Douglas Hinton III adopted a flag carried by the Sixth Michigan Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War. 

On Saturday, September 14, 2024, Save the Flags was honored to attend and participate in two marker dedications honoring Colonel Thomas Stockton.

Save the Flags would like to extend our great appreciation to Karla Christenson for her recent adoption of a flag carried by the Ninth Michigan Cavalry Regiment.

Bruce and Terri Miller recently adopted SC-228-90; a flag carried by the First (Three Months) Michigan Infantry Regiment--the very first flag of the very first Michigan regiment to see combat in the Civil War.