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Posted in Flag Photos, History, Information, Uh, Not Exactly on May 28th, 2008
I was a third-grader at Hamlin, Texas on May 5, 1961, when Alan Shepard flew into outer space. My teacher, Mrs. Juanita Elkins brought a television into the classroom so we could watch it. I am in awe of how far the space program has come since then.
Launched in August 2007, the Phoenix Mars Mission [...]
Posted in Uh, Not Exactly on Jan 15th, 2008
Every month I find another website that quotes a list of facts about Texas. Most of the time they quote the same "facts" about Texas picked up from other websites, because the lists are always similar. This morning, I was rummaging through my news reader and found this article, Texas Facts, with a list [...]
Posted in Flags in the News, Uh, Not Exactly on Jan 14th, 2008
Over the school break for the Christmas and New Year holidays, Larry spotted the Texas flag flying upside down at our nearby elementary school (now corrected).
This morning Larry was going through his feed reader looking for news stories about flags, and his eagle eye spotted another unusual flag.
This flag obviously slipped through quality [...]
Posted in Editorial, Uh, Not Exactly on Oct 30th, 2007
The United States Flag Code gives an explanation of reasons to fly the American flag upside-down, and none of the reasons include protest. Recently, I have witnessed many stories where people are flying the American flag upside-down as a form of protest against any number of things: the war, the President, the Supreme Court, school, [...]
Posted in Flag Facts, Uh, Not Exactly on Sep 25th, 2007
American flag displays range from great to way less than great. The problems seem to crop up when multiple flag poles, of the same height are installed. I wrote an article about this last February regarding two different displays of three flag poles. In the examples given in that article, both sets of flags were [...]
Posted in Flag Facts, Uh, Not Exactly on Jun 28th, 2007
Three equal staffs with the U.S. flag properly flown to its own right.
The more I read and study, the more one big flag myth stands out. I read the following sentence in a California news article that I won’t even reference because it was filled with so much misinformation.
Protocol concerning the use of the [...]
Posted in Uh, Not Exactly on May 31st, 2007
A popular phrase, Once in a Blue Moon, is normally used incorrectly. Popular myth says it occurs when a full moon presents itself twice in the same month—like tonight—but not so, according to this article in Sky Tonight. It seems the correct use of the phrase is a more complicated formula.
SkyTonight.com - Moon [...]
Posted in Flag Facts, Uh, Not Exactly on May 11th, 2007
A few days ago, I wrote about folding the U.S. flag, referencing the only sentence in the U.S. Flag Code about raising and lowering the American flag. For the ones that missed it, here it is:
The United States Flag Code, Section 6(b) says:
The flag should be hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously.
Hoisting Briskly is easy. The [...]
Posted in Flag Facts, Uh, Not Exactly on May 8th, 2007
The United States Flag Code, Section 6(b) says:
The flag should be hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously.
That is the entire text that refers to lowering the flag. Yes, Section 9 refers to our conduct during hoisting, lowering and passing of the flag, but 6(b) is the only reference to how the flag is lowered. Notice that [...]
Posted in Uh, Not Exactly on Apr 16th, 2007
A recurring bit of Texas mythology and misinformation is that Texas is the only state that was a Republic before it joined the Union. This simply is not true.
The Republic of Vermont existed for fourteen years, from January 15, 1777 to March 4, 1791. Vermont was the first state to enter the Union that had [...]
