A seamstress checks out a newly-finished flag at the Atlas Super Flags shop along Rizal Avenue in Sta. Cruz, Manila. Its current owners Gregory Tan Gatue and his wife, Carmelita Tan, continued the business started in 1910 by Gregory’s grandfather , Alejandro, who supplied linen to US troops and was later on commissioned to produce US and Philippine flags. The country celebrates Flag Day today in commemoration of the victory of Filipino revolutionaries led by Emilio Aguinaldo against Spanish forces in the Battle of Alapan.