The third Friday in September is honored as National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
The flag is flown in the full-staff position on this day. While the law addresses flying the POW/MIA flag on federal installations only (see the link above), civilians should fly the POW/MIA flag directly beneath the U.S. flag on the same pole. [...]
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Posted in Flag Facts on Jan 7th, 2008
Last week I wrote about the POW/MIA flag and its unique flying status. The information in that post was incomplete, and needs to be clarified.
The POW/MIA flag, of course, can be flown anytime, all the time, 24/7 if you want (so long as it is properly lighted).
But flying it in second position in order [...]
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Posted in Flag Facts on Jan 3rd, 2008
UPDATE! Corrected Information about POW/MIA flag at this post.
Flickr Photo courtesy
“RebelCam 2006″ October 28, 2006 Winona, Minnesota
I’ve been researching information about the POW/MIA flag. While I have discovered some interesting things about the flag, for today I wanted to mention the protocol regarding the POW/MIA flag.
In order of precedence, the POW/MIA flag flies next in [...]
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Posted in Flags in the News on Sep 21st, 2007
Lots of news about flags today. We start with some space trivia, head to a Japanese flag story, honor POW/MIA Recognition Day, more space trivia, view a captured flag, and finally, a letter from a soldier in Iraq. Busy, busy, busy. This should take you through the entire weekend on flag news.
Ten bits of trivia [...]
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