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Posted in Editorial, Flag Facts, Flag Photos, History, Information on Oct 24th, 2008
A recurring question that shows up on every web site that writes about flags, or sell flags is this: How do you fold a Texas flag?
The Texas Flag Code is silent on this, so there’s no help to be found there. I should mention that the U.S. Flag Code does not tell how to fold [...]
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, with [...]
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.
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 Washington D.C., [...]
Posted in Flag Facts on Feb 7th, 2008
Have you ever wondered about the stars on the U.S. flag? The stars have generated more speculation than any other part of the flag, with the exception of the person who crafted the first one.
The U.S. Flag Code addresses the stars in several places, giving us quite a bit of information. The word star [...]
Posted in Flag Facts on Feb 7th, 2008
In the article Three flag dilemma: What’s the right way to fly?, I discussed one of the flag displays I saw recently. This article is about another display from the same day. Figure 2 represents the flags flying in front of an Austin, Texas business.
Deciding which flags to fly and in what order is [...]
Posted in Flag Facts on Jan 30th, 2008
Flying the U.S. Flag right—made simple
This series is intended for a company or individual that wants to fly the U.S. flag correctly—without offending anyone. The genesis of this idea was a conversation with a banker whose beautiful flagpole stood naked in front of the bank. She asked me the question, "Why is it so [...]
Posted in Flag Facts, Flags in the News on Jan 29th, 2008
Respect: the act of consideration or thoughtfulness. Showing respect for the U.S. flag is nothing more than stopping to consider the relevance of this symbol of liberty. The derivation of the word respect literally means "look back at, regard, consider."
Section 8(g) The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, [...]
