Live Peace and Passion

“Avoid popularity, if you would have peace.”

Abraham Lincoln

* The flag should be hoisted briskly and lower ceremoniously.
* The flag is never allowed to touch the ground or the floor.
* When hung over a sidewalk on a rope extending from a building to a pole the union stars are always away from the building.
* When vertically hung over the center of a 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.
* The flag of the United State of American should be at the center and the highest point of the group when a number of flags of the states or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.
* The flag should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up. In the fold but always allowed to fall free.
* The flag should be displayed at half-staff until noon on Memorial Day the raised to the top of the staff.
* Never fly the flag upside down except as a signal of distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
* The flag is never flown in inclement weather except when using an all-weather flag.
* The flag can be flown every day from sunrise to sunset and at night if illumined properly.
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