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In reply to the discussion: Just home from my shift as a bartender [View all]KY_EnviroGuy
(14,792 posts)23. Maybe remind them many Americans consider wearing our flag an abuse of that flag.
United States Flag Code
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code
Summary of the advisory code
Thanks for sharing, AKwannabe. You did good........
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Flag_Code
Summary of the advisory code
The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing, unless it is the ensign responding to a salute from a ship of a foreign nation. This is sometimes misreported as a tradition that comes from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where countries were asked to dip their flag to King Edward VII; American team flag bearer Ralph Rose did not follow this protocol, and teammate Martin Sheridan is often, though apocryphally, quoted as proclaiming that "this flag dips before no earthly king."
When a flag is so tattered that it no longer fits to serve as a symbol of the United States, it should be replaced in a dignified manner, preferably by burning. The Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Boy Scouts of America, Girl Scouts of the USA, TrailLife USA, the U.S. Military and other organizations regularly conduct dignified flag retirement ceremonies.
The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.[8]
The flag should never touch anything physically beneath it.
The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds but always allowed to fall free.
The flag should always be permitted to fall freely. (An exception was made during the Apollo moon landings when the flag hung from a vertical pole designed with an extensible horizontal bar, allowing full display even in the absence of an atmosphere.)
The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally.
The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever.
The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.
The flag should never be upside down, except to signal distress or great danger.
When displayed vertically against a wall, the union should be to the observers left.
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Hooo boy! Hopefully what ever else you need to do you'll get a good sleep...
electric_blue68
Jul 2022
#7
I imagine the conversations are a bit uglier than they were during my years there.
chowder66
Jul 2022
#36
The remarkable disconnect- wearing the red, white and blue while hating America and Americans
RAB910
Jul 2022
#17
We don't do alcohol at our Legion - our guys shoot off their mouths enough with coffee and
70sEraVet
Jul 2022
#21
The American Legion itself is Conservative leaning and has been more about conservative
JI7
Jul 2022
#22
Thank for your service (sincerely)! And you are right. We learned many valuable lessons.
70sEraVet
Jul 2022
#28
Maybe remind them many Americans consider wearing our flag an abuse of that flag.
KY_EnviroGuy
Jul 2022
#23
AKwannabe upholding the civilized society democracy depends on from behind the bar.
Hortensis
Jul 2022
#31