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The Big Bang Theory on Vexillology 30 Jan 2012 | 07:11 am
Sheldon has vexillology in his brain that has to get out …
Lone Star flag hangs upside-down in TimeWarner Cable commercial 10 Dec 2009 | 04:20 am
TimeWarner Cable is advertising in Texas, which seems ordinary enough. But the company is using a series of commercials that display the Lone Star flag hanging upside-down on the flagpole. The flag’s ...
National POW/MIA Recognition Day to be celebrated September 18, 2009 18 Sep 2009 | 05:27 am
The third Friday in September is honored as National POW/MIA Recognition Day. The flag is flown in the full-staff position on this day. While the law addresses flying the POW/MIA flag on federal inst...
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day on September 17 17 Sep 2009 | 08:02 am
Constitution Day and Citizenship Day is a combined event that is observed in the United States on September 17. This event commemorates the formation and signing of the Constitution of the United Stat...
Texas legislature passes protocol for folding the Lone Star flag 19 Aug 2009 | 12:57 pm
Last October on The Daily Flag, I wrote an article titled Texas Fold ‘Em, about folding the Texas flag. The gist of the article was that there was not an official way to fold the flag, although state ...
Oh say can you sing—The Star-Spangled Banner 17 Mar 2009 | 07:06 am
Last Friday I received an email alerting me to the National Anthem YouTube Singing Contest sponsored by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History and USA Weekend Magazine! My corresponden...
Folding up "The Daily Flag" 1 Jan 2009 | 02:58 am
Happy New Year! And goodbye. It’s time for me to fold up The Daily Flag. I’ve had a great time for the past two years, and made wonderful friends. TDF readers are the best. But I’m not very good at ...
Fly your flag on Christmas Day 24 Dec 2008 | 09:33 am
Christmas, December 25, is an official flag flying day. Christmas is on Thursday this year which is great, because for most of this month, I thought Christmas was on Wednesday. So I was overjoyed to d...
Ten flags fly, in "The Oregonian" flag contest 16 Dec 2008 | 05:10 am
The Daily Flag previously linked here and here, to The Oregonian’s articles about its contest to design a new state flag for Oregon. From thousands of entries, the newspaper has chosen ten finalists f...
Displaying the Texas flag 12 Dec 2008 | 05:14 am
A reminder to those who want to display the Texas flag in the vertical position: The white stripe is on the left and the red stripe is on the right. From the Texas State Library and Archives Commissi...
