How to Fly the United States Flag

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.

How to fly our American Flag: Inside

· When on a speaker's podium, the flag should be either above and behind the speaker, or to the speaker's right as he faces the audience.

· When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union (blue field) should be uppermost and to the flag's right, that is, the observer's left.

· In a window, or suspended above a corridor, the flag should hang with the union on the viewer's left.