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I just put an American flag on my porch. It's at a 45 degree angle, not on a pole or the house, but off the edge of the porch. I was just wondering what the correct display times, etc are. Like, what days am I supposed to take it down? What do I do with it when it's supposed to fly at half mast? Things like that. Any help would be appreciated.

http://pages.cthome.net/boyd544/94_344.html

Helpful guide from those who have a vested interest in proper flag etiquette...

Veterans Administration (http://www1.va.gov/opa/feature/celebrate/flagdisp.asp)

Thanks for asking.

Basically, you are welcome to fly it any way you choose, but if you want to follow some protocol or guidelines, then I think Patton and SC have you covered.  It is one of the benefits of living in a free country.

Thankyou very much.  :)

Don't you have anything more important to worry about than flag etiquette.  :sleepy: :sleepy: :sleepy: zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Apparently you don't as you've spent your valuable time replying inside an 'American Flag Etiquette' thread...sleepy sleepy sleepy zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I've literally spent 5 minutes on it, thanks to this thread. I would have just asked my grandfather, but then I would have had to endure one of his stories. Now that would make me sleepy.

One helpful hint;

Don't let anyone sign it.

(http://www.moxiegrrrl.com/images/bushandflag.jpg)

FreeinTX

That's disgusting.

Improper flag treatment, like the time I saw a town cop let it touch the ground taking it down from City Hall, is a little irritating to me. It's a bit more aggravating if it's willful, and even more aggravating if the guy doing it is the president.

That picture knocked my respect for Bush, which wasn't very high to begin with, down to a whole new low the first time I saw it.

To be fair, though, it's not like he's signing a real flag with any stitching. It's one of those tiny cheap ones...  :-\

It's even a BAD photoshop.

So, now symbols are only important if they are done up all nice, with stitching?  What about if they are real nice with stitching but made in China?  Would it have been okay then, too?

UHHhuh

FreeinTX

Please, don't feign outrage when you come from the party that would rather burn it than fly it.

Quite a claim.  I'm gonna need to see some proof.  That any one party would rather burn it and fly it.  Next that free comes from that party.  Or else this is BS.

Watch who burns the flag and who defends it. Pretty simple, really.

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20020628friday.html

Goes hand in hand with this kind of thing too. Seems to always be a common denominator...

Neither of these prove that say, the democrats would rather burn it than fly it.  You came up with some anecdotal evidence.  Good for you.  Didn't come close to backing your claim though.  Nor to proving that free is a dem.  Kinda what I thought.

Let me rephrase...all liberals aren't flag burners but all flag burners are liberals. Any time you see someone wanting to ban patriotic symbols, guess who...

If you have an example of a conservative group doing similar, please share.

Didn't say I did.  The 'liberals' you are referring to are not true liberals. 

My whole point was that you were making wild claims you could not back.  That's all. 

Generalizations probably.

We will keep this in mind next time some makes some 'wild claims' about conservatives that they can't back up.

Wait until the Dems take fire off of each other and focus like a laser beam on Republicans. You'll hear them multiple times a day.

It only makes sense that someone who doesn't want to trample the bill of rights by banning certain activities, must be participating in those activities.


And I guess it goes without saying why it is most Republicans don't want a ban on words like b**** or n*****.

I think you're kidding, but I'm not sure.

So when there's American flag symbols all over the newspaper around the 4th of July, do you carefully forever preserve the paper or do you throw it away (or recycle it)? It's all dependent upon the material and craftsmanship of the flag. The one I put out is big and the stars are stitched thread, not just printed.

Also, on the subject of flag burning, I thought that's what you're supposed to do with a flag once it's reached the end of it's lifespan.

It is, members of the American Legion will often be the ones to put the flag to rest properly. They consider it an honor, and they bring honor to us as Americans when they do it. That fact is problematic for those who want to criminalize flag burning (as a protest). It means that to ban undesirable flag burning, we must legislate someone's expression of an idea, not their actions.

As to the newspaper, I think it is entirely inappropriate to be using the flag as a repeated miniature image for a publication layout. Especially on something as disposable as newspaper. It is our national symbol, not a 4th of July decoration.

IMO, it should not be printed on bumper stickers, t-shirts, or most other things you're likely to see it on either.