A photograph accurately shows a U.S. "distress" flag hung upside down from the side of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park by a group of employees.

An inverted American flag, which was displayed at Yosemite National Park in February 2025, is a historic symbol of dire distress.

Retired Sergeant First Class Joy Marver, who suffered a traumatic brain injury during a rocket attack in Iraq, was laid off ...

Traditionally, hanging the American flag upside down symbolizes a distress call. Gavin Carpenter, a maintenance mechanic with Yosemite, spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday and said he ...

Organizers said the inverted flag, historically used as a sign of distress, was meant to draw ... s cuts to the National Park Service. The upside-down flag drew widespread attention on social ...

The U.S. Flag Code states that the American flag should never be upside down "except as a signal of dire distress in instance of extreme danger to life or property." Once a signal of distress for ...

An American flag flies upside down Monday ... And we will rise up, and we will resist.” An upside-down flag signals distress, and Pfleger said the flag outside St. Sabina will stay inverted ...

“National Park Service rangers have pulled off a brilliant action in Yosemite Park on El Capitan by deploying a massive American flag upside down in the traditional sign of distress or extreme ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Father Michael Pfleger and his South Side Saint Sabina Church community raised the American flag upside-down Monday, saying the country is in distress. Pfleger led a procession of ...

Demonstrators unfurled a giant ‘Distress flag’ after 11 full-time Yosemite staff members were laid off amid the Trump administration’s federal employee purge ...

Flying a flag upside down is traditionally a sign of "dire distress," the United States ... which are every American’s properties," Gavin Carpenter, a Yosemite maintenance mechanic and disabled ...

An upside-down flag signals distress, and Pfleger said the flag ... said she’s always respected the American flag and what it stands for. But she supports raising it upside down to “wake ...