Display
of US Flag
The flag should especially be displayed at full staff on the following
days:
- January 1 - New Year's Day
- January 20 - Inauguration
Day
- February 12 - Lincoln's Birthday
- Third Monday in February - Presidents' Day, originally Washington's birthday
- Third Saturday in
May - Armed Forces Day
- Last Monday in May - Memorial Day (half-staff
until noon)
- June 14 - Flag Day
- July 4 - Independence Day
- First Monday in September -
Labor Day
- September 17 - Constitution Day
- Second Monday in October - Columbus Day
- October 27 - Navy Day
- November 11 - Veterans Day
- Fourth Thursday in November - Thanksgiving Day
- and such other days as may be proclaimed by the President
of the United States; the birthdays of States (date of admission);
and on State holidays.
By presidential proclamation, acts of Congress,
and custom, American flags are displayed continuously at certain locations.
- Replicas of the Star Spangled Banner Flag (15 stars, 15 stripes)
are flown at two sites in Baltimore, Maryland: Fort McHenry National
Monument and Historic Shrine (Presidential Proclamation No. 2795, July
2, 1948) and Flag House Square
(Public Law 83-319, approved March 26,
1954).
- United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Raising the Flag on
Iwo Jima), Arlington, Virginia
(Presidential Proclamation No. 3418,
June 12, 1961).
- Lexington, Massachusetts Town Green
(Public Law 89-335, approved
November 8, 1965).
- The White House, Washington, DC
(Presidential Proclamation
No. 4000, September 4, 1970).
- Fifty U.S. Flags are displayed continuously
at the Washington Monument, Washington, DC.
(Presidential Proclamation
No. 4064, July 6, 1971, effective July 4, 1971).
- By order of Richard
Nixon at United States Customs Service Ports of Entry that are continuously
open
(Presidential Proclamation No. 4131, May 5, 1972).
- By Congressional
decree, a Civil War era flag (for the year 1863) flies above Pennsylvania
Hall (Old Dorm) at Gettysburg College. This building, occupied by both
sides at various points of the Battle of Gettysburg, served as a lookout
and battlefield hospital.
- Grounds of the National Memorial Arch in Valley
Forge NHP, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania (Public Law 94-53, approved July
4, 1975).
- Mount Slover limestone quarry (Colton Liberty Flag), in Colton,
California (Act of Congress). First raised July 4, 1917.
- Washington
Camp Ground, part of the former Middlebrook encampment, Bridgewater,
New Jersey, Thirteen Star Flag, by Act of Congress.
- By custom, at the
Maryland home, birthplace, and grave of Francis Scott Key; at the Worcester,
Massachusetts war memorial; at the plaza in Taos, New Mexico (since
1861); at the United States Capitol (since 1918); and at Mount Moriah
Cemetery in Deadwood, South Dakota.
- On the south pole, in the center
of the Antarctic,
an American flag is posted separate from the cluster
of worldwide flags.
- The American flag is on continual display
on the surface of the Moon,
placed there by the astronauts
of Apollo 11, Apollo 12, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, Apollo 16, and Apollo
17.
It is possible that Apollo 11's flag was knocked down by the exhaust
force of liftoff for return to lunar orbit.
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