The Appeal to Heaven flag, or “Pine Tree” flag, features a green pine tree on a white field, with the words “An Appeal to Heaven” in black text above it. It was originally commissioned ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is embroiled in a second flag controversy in as many weeks, this time over a banner that in recent years has come to symbolize sympathies with the Christian ...

The flag in question features a green pine tree on a white background with the motto: “An Appeal to Heaven.” It was seen as a popular patriotic symbol in New England during the early years of ...

hearkening back to the Gadsden flag, another symbol that would not meet the approval of the New York Times. A small pine tree in the right-hand corner is another “Appeal to Heaven” reference ...