As the United States prepares to honor its upcoming 250th birthday next year, an American flag is making its way to historic military sites around the world.

After flying over American Battle Monuments Commission cemeteries in Europe, the flag has made its way to the Pacific. The so-called America250 flag recently arrived in Pearl Harbor, where it was raised above the USS Arizona Memorial by National Park Service rangers.

According to a Monday media release by Pacific Historic Parks, a nonprofit that partner’s closely with the National Park Service at Pearl Harbor and is dedicated to preserving military history in Hawaii, the flag’s stop in Hawaii “marks the flag’s first U.S. stop before it continues to military sites across the Pacific, then to the continental United States.”

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