enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. Flag protocol - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_protocol

   A flag protocol (or flag code) is a set of rules and regulations for the display of flags within a country, including national, subnational, and foreign flags. Generally, flag protocols call for the national flag to be the most prominent flag (i.e, in the position of honor), flown highest and to its own right (the viewer's left) and for the flag to never touch the ground.

3. United States Flag Code - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code

   The flag should never touch anything physically beneath it. [9] An urban myth claimed that if the flag touched the ground, it had to be destroyed under the Flag Code; however, it has been affirmed by the American Legion and state governments that this is not the case. [10] [11] The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery.

4. Half-mast - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-mast

   The Finnish flag flying at half-mast after the 2011 Norway attacks The American flag flying at half-mast in Buchenwald, Thuringia, Nazi Germany, on 19 April 1945 after the death of US President Franklin Roosevelt. Half-mast or half-staff (American English) refers to a flag flying below the summit of a ship mast, a pole on land, or a pole on a ...

5. How to properly hang, display the US flag for Memorial Day - AOL

   www.aol.com/properly-hang-display-us-flag...

   Hang the U.S. flag properly. When the U.S. flag is hung on a wall of any kind, it should be laid flat to avoid folds in the fabric. When suspended over a street, the flag should be hung with the ...

6. Why are flags being flown at half-staff for Rosalynn Carter?

   www.aol.com/news/why-flags-being-flown-half...

   The proclamation said all US flags will be flown at half-staff, meaning the flag will be dropped down to somewhere around the middle of the pole. US flags on the White House, all public buildings ...

7. Glossary of vexillology - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_vexillology

   Flying the flag upside-down, [note 2] or tying it into a wheft. [1] Half-mast. Main article: Half-mast. A style of flag display where the flag is flown at least the width of the flag between the top of the flag and the top of the pole. Typically used as a display of mourning or rememberence. Hoist The act or function of raising a flag, as on a ...