Kerry reopens the U.S. Embassy in Havana after 54 years without a flag

For 54 years, no American flag flew over the U.S. mission on Havana's Malecón. On August 14, 2015, Secretary of State John Kerry stood before the seven-story concrete building to officially reopen the embassy, three weeks after Washington and Havana restored full diplomatic ties. Eight members of Congress watched as Larry C. Morris, Mike East and Jim Tracy, the three Marines who had lowered the flag in 1961, presented a new one to the Marines now stationed there. It rose over a building that had spent 38 years as a low-profile "interests section" under Swiss protection…