The Daily Flag

 The World Factbook, a publication of the United States’ Central Intelligence Agency, is an excellent resource for  current world flags as graphic images, and other information presented in gazette form.
I have a 1990 edition of The World Factbook; I wonder how many flags have changed since then?
So—can you find Pitcairn Islands on the world [...]

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The U.S. Flag Code is a remarkable document, but it doesn’t explain some of the rules. Section 8(c) of the Code says: The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
So why are the giant flag displays shown below a severe violation of the U.S. Flag Code?

Because there is [...]

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This is a good article that Larry wrote in January 2007, and worthy of review.
Flag vocabulary is not universally known, so I created this diagram naming the different parts of a flag. As you see (click the image for larger picture), each component is given a distinct name, and there are even more than [...]

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The third Friday of each September is set aside by law, as National POW-MIA Recognition Day, and today I want to cover the protocol for flying the POW-MIA flag. Tomorrow I’ll write about the flag, and how it came to be, and what it means to Americans.
Tomorrow the U.S. Flag flies at full staff, with [...]

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Fair is fair. Right? 
I have written here at length about the Freedom to Display the American Flag Act of 2005 (Public Law 109-243). Here is a story from the Baltimore Sun where a woman is flying the flag in violation of her condo by-laws, and defending her actions by claiming she has the right [...]

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