The Daily Flag

Please forgive me for posting a rerun, but this is a good article that Larry wrote in January 2007. 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 [...]

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In 1954, Dwight D Eisenhower sign the United States Flag Code, making it the standard for every aspect of the American Flag. He also added an executive order in 1959 to clarify a few missing components. I find the dimensions for the flag very interesting. Flags today come in easy to remember sizes, 3X5, 4X6, [...]

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