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Tag Archive 'U.S. Flag Code'

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, [...]

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That’s a lot of title, but all the elements are inextricably linked. Yesterday I didn’t post an article on The Daily Flag because I was doing research and answering questions. I am not a flag expert, but I am good at research, and I have patience, a highly useful skill in research. If you ask [...]

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Decision

An editorial I read yesterday left me seeing red, plus stars and stripes. It was another slam against wearing flag pins. This attitude distresses me, because wearing the flag as a pin is the only —sanctioned, let’s call it—method for ordinary civilians to wear the flag, as opposed to all the unsanctioned ways in which [...]

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At the Flags Bay store website and The Daily Flag, there are links to the U.S. Flag Code, which I hope are useful to our readers. Today I discovered The United States Flag: Federal Law Relating to Display and Associated Questions while searching for some particular information about flag protocol. I didn’t find what I [...]

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The American Flag Ceiling?

Section 8(f) of the U.S. Flag Code puzzles me. (f) The flag should never be used as a covering for a ceiling. Believing that most laws (and rules) have an originating  factor, my mind races to understand what must have transpired requiring this sentence’s inclusion in the Flag Code. I can see it now— Dateline [...]

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