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Posted in Editorial, Flag Facts, Flag Photos, Flag Position Status, Flags in the News, History, Information on Sep 18th, 2008
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, [...]
Posted in Editorial, Flag Facts, Flag Photos, History, Information on Jul 16th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Editorial, Flag Photos, Information on May 7th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Flag Facts, History, Information on Apr 16th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Editorial on Mar 13th, 2008
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 [...]
