Ensure you're honoring the Stars and Stripes correctly! Learn the proper ways to handle, display, and dispose of the American flag, especially on significant days like Memorial Day. Show your ...

The U.S. flag code says American flags should not be displayed upside-down except as a signal of “dire distress,” but free speech protections prevent prosecution.

Eichman, a ruling that essentially protected violations of flag etiquette as free speech. For service members in uniform, however, proper display of the American flag is a much bigger deal ...

She taught us rules for displaying, storing and disposing of the American flag that are still tattooed on the inside of my skull. Yet I look around and I see flags flying in the rain, flags flying ...

This policy will bring consistency and simplicity to the display of flags throughout the department, which now has a singular ...

The first celebration of the U.S. Flag's birthday was held in 1877, on the 100th anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777. However, it is believed that the first annual recognition of the flag's ...

Monday’s Flag Day ceremony in Library Square was a reverent observance that honored a symbol of American pride and freedom. The real Flag Day, of course, is today. Are you flying a flag at ...

The flag code, which regulates how private citizens should use and display the American flag, became federal law in 1942. It says, in part, that “the flag should never be displayed with the ...