Demonstrators then prepared symbolic flag-draped coffins marking the presence of the U.S.military in different foreign countries.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

The color comes from tannin that seeps from towering cypress trees draped in Spanish moss.

VOA: standard.2010.03.29

Sudanese soldiers carried Jaafar Nimeiri's flag-draped body from the presidential palace in Khartoum to a cemetery in Omdurman, the capital's sister city across the Nile river.

VOA: standard.2009.05.31

Mrs.Aquino's coffin, draped in the Philippine flag and laid over a bed of yellow flowers, was carried in a large truck Monday through a section of Manila's EDSA highway: the site of the "people power" movement she led in 1986 that overthrew the authoritarian Marcos government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03