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 ...

Viewers asked on social media during the Super Bowl whether a president is allowed to salute if he hasn’t served in the ...

U.S. Code, Title 4, Chapter 1, § 7 The section of U.S. Code commonly known as the “Flag Code” is a set of guidelines for the proper display of the American ... s standard protocol, a set ...

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 ...