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.

The debate question about flag lapel pins was hardly random and spontaneous. Subscribe. Search. News ... “How can I vote for a president who won’t wear a flag pin?” the recently unemployed ...

During ABC's April 16 Democratic presidential debate, Charles Gibson claimed that the issue of whether Sen. Barack Obama wears a flag lapel pin "comes up again and again when we talk to voters ...

Time on the history of the flag pin: It was during the culture wars of the late sixties and early seventies that the flag lapel pin truly took off and became the simultaneously uniting and divisive… ...