In a gaffe shortly before French President Emmanuel Macron declared the Games open, the five-ring Olympic flag was raised upside down at the Trocadero, across from the Eiffel Tower.

Mark Gibson Robert Persichitti, of Fairport, New York, reportedly died last week at age 102 while en route to attend a D-Day 80th anniversary commemoration event in France ... raising of the U.S ...

A World War II US Navy veteran who witnessed the raising of the United States flag at Iwo Jima has died on the way to a D-Day commemoration event in France. Robert Persichitti, 102, passed away on ...