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Today is the 64th anniversary of the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, a date generally called D-Day. No, you don’t have to fly your flag. This is not one of the days designated by Congress for flag-flying.
But you may, and probably, you should.
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Good lord…. Easter? Christmas? Mothers Day?
This has gotten out of hand. I have a porch flag I put up on Memorial Day, the 4th of July, and Lincoln’s Birthday and on such other days as I think I should fly it. All month post 9/11 for example. I absolutely refuse to fly it on Flag Day. [A day on which we fly the flag to celebrate flying the flag?]
In these parts, the Boy Scouts raise money by selling a flag posting service. On six days of the year [Memorial Day, the 4th of July, the 24th — Pioneer Day hereabouts— Veterans Day, Presidents Day and Flag Day I think are the ones] , for an annual fee, they come around early in the morning and plant a flag on a six foot pole in the lawn in front of your house… and remove it after sundown that day. I think highly of what Scouting does and can do for boys and very highly of the local volunteers who actually run the troops [though I have little respect for the pontificating bureaucrats in the National Scout office], and I generally like to support Scouting fundraisers. But not this one.
It seems too much like contract-patriotism [another version of bumper sticker patriotism]. If you want to fly the flag on a holiday as a gesture of patriotism or respect for veterans, or for any other reason, you ought to be willing to at least raise the flag yourself, and not contract the job out so all you end up doing is writing a check once a year.
I’ve spent many days [as a Boy Scout — we won’t discuss how many years ago — and as an adult leader [Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts] walking national cemeteries, putting flags on graves for Memorial Day, and then picking them up [Our troop was sponsored by an American Legion post.] As I said, I fly my own flag when I think it should be flown. But we are in danger of slipping over the line now into flag fetishism [is that a word?], as witness the ridiculous hoo-raw over candidates wearing flag lapel pins. Cong. Duke Cunningham and Cong. Ney both liked to wear them often, as I recall, and both are now guests of the public serving long sentences for public corruption. So what we can reasonably conclude about anyone’s character or patriotism from the fact that he wears a flag lapel pin or flies a flag on his lawn is this: absolutely nothing.
Sorry, but this tendency, which I see growing, of people to erect little private “tests” of patriotism and insist everyone pass them, is a pet peeve of mine. [“He doesn’t have a SUPPORT OUR TROOPS sign on his lawn, and I do. So he must not be a patriot as I am.” And so on.]
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Yeah, I’m serious. Here’s the list:
https://timpanogos.wordpress.com/this-bathtub-this-blog/flag-fly-dates/
* New Year’s Day, January 1
* Inauguration Day, January 20
* Martin Luther King Jr.’s Birthday, third Monday in January
* Lincoln’s Birthday, February 12
* Washington’s Birthday, third Monday in February
* Easter Sunday (variable)
* Mother’s Day, second Sunday in May
* Armed Forces Day, third Saturday in May
* Memorial Day (half-staff until noon*), the last Monday in May
* Flag Day, June 14
* Independence Day, July 4
* Labor Day, first Monday in September
* Constitution Day, September 17
* Columbus Day, second Monday in October
* Navy Day, October 27
* Veterans Day, November 11
* Thanksgiving Day, fourth Thursday in November
* Christmas Day, December 25
* Other days as may be proclaimed by the President of the United States
* The birthdays of States (date of admission)
* State holidays
As you can see, there are more than a score of possibilities in any state. The actual language of 4 USC sec. 6
Some years here in Texas we vote four or five times. With those dates and state holidays added in, you can get 30 to 40 good flag-flying dates. Of course, you may fly the flag any day, and there are a lot of people who do.
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Congress has issued a list of days on which we’re supposed to fly flags?
Are you serious?
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Thank you for the reminder.
I am currently reading “Partners in Command” by Mark Perry. It is a wonderful book about the relationship between Marshall and Eisenhower, and how they worked together to succeed in WWII. I highly recommend the book. The story is a very interesting and different look at WWII in Europe.
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