Friday 14 June 2024

Flag Day Dress

 

Memorial Day was fourteen days ago, and Independence Day is twenty days from now. Both are excellent days for flying the stars and stripes. So’s today: Flag Day. Our flag can be flown any day, sunrise to sunset. If you wish to display your flag 24/7, it needs to be illuminated. You should take down your flag in inclement weather. There are 3,265 words in the official U.S. Flag Code, specifying how and when a flag may be displayed. There are rules about how quickly a flag may be run up or down the pole, about flags at half-staff, about displays including state flags or other countries’ flags, and about disposing of worn-out flags. Knowing this, I’ve often wondered how Walt Disney World complies with the code, considering all the U.S. flags displayed in the parks. Actually, they don’t. Because those are props, not flags. They’re missing some stars and stripes. Disney can do what they like with them.

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