Posted: 5/28/2012 3:31:40 AM EDT
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Just a reminder for those flying the flag.
If you have an in-ground flag pole your flag should be at half staff until noon and then briskly hoisted to full staff. If you have any other type of flag pole, i.e., one you hang on your house, then you do not put your flag out until noon. This is the official rule for flying the flag on Memorial Day. ETA: Spelling. |
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You'd be surprised how many young Veterans did not know this. A guy in my neighborhood just back from Afg. was raising his flag this morning while i was jogging. He ran the flag to the top and i politely informed him to lower it to half staff but he just gave me a weird look and went back in. When i came around again he had the flag at half staff and was standing by the road to thank me. He said he went in and looked it up and found i was correct.
Bump. |
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Quoted: ... one you hang on your house, then you do not put your flag out until noon. This is the official rule for flying the flag on Memorial Day ... I ain't running down the pickup truck full of Boy Scouts, planting them around the neighborhood at the break of dawn, just to remind them of "code" |
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You'd be surprised how many young Veterans did not know this. A guy in my neighborhood just back from Afg. was raising his flag this morning while i was jogging. He ran the flag to the top and i politely informed him to lower it to half staff but he just gave me a weird look and went back in. When i came around again he had the flag at half staff and was standing by the road to thank me. He said he went in and looked it up and found i was correct. Bump. The flag actually should be raised all the way up and then lowered to half mast. |
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Quoted: Just a reminder for those flying the flag. If you have an in-ground flag pole your flag should be at half staff until noon and then briskly hoisted to full staff. If you have any other type of flag pole, i.e., one you hang on your house, then you do not put your flag out until noon. This is the official rule for flying the flag on Memorial Day. ETA: Spelling. What about the black streamer? Where are these official rules? |
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Just a reminder for those flying the flag. If you have an in-ground flag pole your flag should be at half staff until noon and then briskly hoisted to full staff. If you have any other type of flag pole, i.e., one you hang on your house, then you do not put your flag out until noon. This is the official rule for flying the flag on Memorial Day. ETA: Spelling. Mine is on the side of my house, but is adjustable. AFAIK, that's for just such occasions, lowering it to 90 deg for half staff. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong here. |
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... Rules and "code police", really/ How about just be happy that some Americans still honor Memorial Day and flag their flags out of respect Come on guys, really? Not so much code police as it is attention to detail. It's a military thing. 
I doubt anyone here is going to go Sergeant Major on anyone doing it wrong; the thread is simply to inform how to do it right. |
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It seems that you can't post anything on this site without some ass wanting to muck up the thread with their crap. Yes there are regs for flying the flag, check out the U.S. Flag Code. Maybe we should just get rid of all the rules and regs for everything. Doesn't the Flag Code only technically apply to .gov owned flags? The ones that are personally owned aren't required to fly by the rules? |
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Just a reminder for those flying the flag. If you have an in-ground flag pole your flag should be at half staff until noon and then briskly hoisted to full staff. If you have any other type of flag pole, i.e., one you hang on your house, then you do not put your flag out until noon. This is the official rule for flying the flag on Memorial Day. ETA: Spelling. What about the black streamer? Where are these official rules? Black streamer can be hung over the top of the flag that can't be brought to half mast, it has to be the length of the flag and the same width as a stripe. |
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Old Glory is always hoisted BRISKLY, PROUDLY–– except on lowering to HALF-MAST, moved slowly and reverently, and returned in the Very. Same. Manner. To. Full. Height. At Retreat, lower her slowly and reverently... I'm especially moved today at MARINEORDIE's comment today in another thread about his looking forward to this morning's Flag Detail. Semper Fidelis, Sir !! I was honored to have been rostered for and performed NCOIC of Post Flag Detail in the week of my retirement. I hold that dearest over my 22-year career, equal to my tour in Vietnam. Thanks, Brothers, and Rest In Peace. 
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| Never knew that. Thanks for educating me, OP. I was flying the flag yesterday, but took it in when the wind and rain from TS Beryl really started picking up. It's been windy and rainy this morning, so I haven't put it up. What's the proper procedure during storms? Fly the flag, or don't? (No in-ground pole, I have the bracket type.) |
