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Summer is full of patriotic celebrations. The Pioneer Woman Mercantile hosts a fantastic 4th of July celebration, and Ree's even been known to make a flag cake for Memorial Day.Some people set out ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has laid out the important steps you should follow when retiring and discarding a worn or soiled American flag.
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.
Flag burning is only permitted, in the case of proper disposal of the flag. [101] A crucial point of etiquette for the Philippine flag is that flying it upside-down (i.e., red field over blue), or vertically hanging it with the red to the viewer's left, makes it the national war standard.
(2) This subsection does not prohibit any conduct consisting of the disposal of a flag when it has become worn or soiled. (b) As used in this section, the term "flag of the United States" means any flag of the United States, or any part thereof, made of any substance, of any size, in a form that is commonly displayed.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has laid out the important steps you should follow when retiring and discarding an old, worn, or soiled American flag.
The bill would "prohibit planting a flagpole and flag in the center of the Ohio Stadium football field on the day of a college football game and to name this act the O.H.I.O. Sportsmanship Act."
The flag flown alongside the American flag. The chrome yellow, white, and scarlet red triband (officially a 1:2:1 proportion, but is often made a 1:2.3:1 proportion to fit the seal) is a reference to Spain, who funded Christopher Columbus' expeditions to the Americas. Columbus, the namesake of the city, is also referenced near the center of the ...