The U.S. Postal Service will dedicate the new Hawai'i "Flags of Our Nation" stamp at noon on Tuesday in the courtyard of the Airport Post Office in Honolulu.

The dedication ceremonies will be emceed by Honolulu Postmaster Frank Santos and will include remarks by Hawai'i Attorney General Mark Bennett, who is standing in for Gov. Linda Lingle.

The Postal Service's Honolulu District Manager Daryl Ishizaki will dedicate the new flag.

Flags of our Nation is a three-year, multistamp series, featuring the Stars and Stripes, the 50 state flags, five territorial flags, and the District of Columbia flag.

The first set of 10 stamps in the series was issued on June 14, Flag Day.

The second set, to be issued nationwide on Sept. 2, features the flags of the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas and Hawaii.

In addition to the flag art, each stamp design includes artwork that provides a "snapshot view" of the state or other area represented by a particular flag.

These stamps are arranged alphabetically in strips of 10 and sold in coils of 50.

Four more sets of flag stamps will be issued in 2009 and 2010. Collectors will be able to purchase the Flags of Our Nation stamps and have them hand canceled for free with a special commemorative first day of sale postmark by postal personnel from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in the Airport Post Office courtyard. This second set of Flags of Our Nation stamps will be available for purchase in post offices throughout Hawai'i and across the U.S. on Sept. 2.