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Flag Day Etiquette
By John
From Col P's hometown rag, Flag Day Etiquette:
The flag of the United States is the emblem of our identity as a separate nation, which the United States of America has been for more than 200 years. Therefore, citizens should stand at attention and salute when their flag is passing in a parade or being hoisted or lowered.The custom is to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on flagstaffs in the open, but it may be displayed at night upon special occasions to produce a patriotic effect.
The flag should be hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously.
It should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement.
It should be displayed, weather permitting, on all holidays: New Year's Day; Inauguration Day; Lincoln's Birthday; Washington's Birthday; Armed Forces Day; Easter Sunday; Mother's Day; Memorial Day (half-staff until noon); Flag Day; Independence Day; Labor Day; Constitution Day; Columbus Day; Veterans Day; Thanksgiving; Christmas; and state holidays and admission days.
It should be displayed at every public institution and in or near every polling place on election days, and at schoolhouses during school days.
In a procession the flag is to the right of another flag or, if in a line of other flags, in front of the center of that line.
The flag should not be displayed on a float except from a staff, nor draped over the hood, top, sides, or back of a vehicle.
When the flag is displayed on a vehicle, the staff should be fixed firmly to the chassis.
No other flag should be placed above the flag of the United States or, if on the same level, to its right.
The United Nations flag may not be displayed above or in a position of superior prominence to the United States flag except at United Nations Headquarters.
I loved the last one. Read the whole thing.
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I'm shocked that the Bolsheviks at the Roanoke Times would let such an outdated creed, the manifesto of wreckers and diversionists, be published. Their mincing little Queen in Residence (http://www.roanoke.com/editorials/trejbal/wb/106447) cannot have been pleased.