{"id":1904,"date":"2015-06-15T23:53:54","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T03:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2015-06-16T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T12:28:35","slug":"well-flog-me-with-a-wet-noodle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dansdigitaldive.com\/web\/archives\/1904","title":{"rendered":"Well flog me with a wet noodle!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"US<\/a>This past weekend my neighbor was flying his national ensign. \u00a0I thought, isn’t that cool. \u00a0Didn’t even occur to me that Sunday was Flag Day. \u00a0So today I hang my head in shame. \u00a0Flag Day did not show in the Google Holiday calendar. \u00a0But, I digress – I cannot blame a calendar app.<\/p>\n

Flag day is celebrated on the anniversary (June 14, 1777) of the passing of a flag resolution by the Second Continental Congress. \u00a0It stated…<\/p>\n

Resolved, That the flag of the United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For more information, visit the Betsy Ross house website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The father of our country, George Washington explained the flag as such: “We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her, and the white stripes shall go down to posterity representing Liberty.”<\/p>\n

Initially, both the stars and the stripes represented each state, so in 1794, after Vermont (1791) and Kentucky (1792) were added to the Union, there were 15 stripes, and 15 stars. \u00a0In 1818 Congress decreed that there shall only be thirteen stripes representing the original colonies, and there should be a star for each state in the Union. The effective date of each star is the July 4th following the state’s admittance to the Union.<\/p>\n

When should you fly the flag? \u00a0I’ll clue you in, Flag Day is one of those days! \u00a0Click here<\/a> for a list of holidays. In addition to the national list, we in Virginia should fly our flags on June 25th, the anniversary of the states admittance to the Union. \u00a0Just in case anyone is curious: I’m also going to fly my flag on November 2nd in celebration of the Great State of North Dakota’s admittance to the Union.<\/p>\n

When my daughters were small, I taught them how to fold the flag, and how to conduct colors (the rising and lowing of our National Ensign). \u00a0Here is a good link on how to fold our flag<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What is a citizen to do? \u00a0How is one to know all this information? \u00a0Well, the US Government has codified it in Title 36, Chapter 10 of the U.S. Code. \u00a0It is commonly referred to as the Flag Code<\/a>. \u00a0The following is a general common sense guide, provided by the American Military Retirees Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n