10 GUIDELINES on How to Fly the American Flag:
1. The flag should be hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously.
2. The flag is never allowed to touch the ground or the floor.
3. When hung over a sidewalk on a rope extending from a building to a pole, the union stars are always away from the building.
4. When vertically hung over the center of the street, the flag always has the union stars to the north in an east/west street, and to the east in a north/south street.
5. The flag of the United States of America should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags of states or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.
6. The flag should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up in folds but always allowed to fall free.
7. The flag should be displayed at half-staff until noon on Memorial Day then raised to the top of the staff.
8. Never fly the flag upside down except as a signal of distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
9. The flag is never flown in inclement weather except when using an all weather flag.
10. The flag can be flown every day from sunrise to sunset and at night if illuminated properly.
FLAG DISPLAY DAYS:
The flag should be displayed on all days, especially on:
New Year's Day - January 1st
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - 3rd Monday in January
Lincoln's Birthday - February 12
Washington's Birthday - 3rd Monday in February (President's Day)
Easter Sunday - Variable
Mother's Day - 2nd Sunday in May
Peace Officers - May 15 (Memorial Day half-staffed)
Armed Forces Day - 3rd Saturday in May
Flag Day - June 14
Independence Day - July 4
National Korean War - July 27th (Veterans Armistice Day half-staffed)
Labor Day - 1st Monday in September
Patriot Day - September 11th (half-staffed)
POW/MIA Recognition Day - 3rd Friday in September
Constitution Day - Sept. 17 (Citizenship Day)
Columbus Day - 2nd Monday in October
Navy Day - October 27
Veterans Day - November 11
Thanksgiving Day - 4th Thursday in November
National Pearl Harbor - December 7 (Remembrance Day half-staffed)
Christmas Day - December 25
and such other days as may be proclaimed by the president of the USA; birthdays of states (date of admisssion); and on state holidays.
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