The official Flag Day is scheduled during the month of June. Make sure that you are ready to celebrate it with gusto and enthusiasm. It would be such a disaster to find yourself being the only one not having a flag to wave at least while your neighbors are fully prepared. Imagine the neighborhood being festive and colorful about the whole celebration while you are in a seemingly solitary state without anything to participate in? This is the reason why you should get started early.
During the celebration, the festivities peak at around noon, but starting as early as daybreak. Flags flown on poles during Flag Day are hoisted briskly as the day starts, and then a little more lowered as the day progresses into the night.
Sometimes, the local government may indicate or commemorate a passing of a national hero or someone of high regard. In this state, it is advisable to follow flag etiquette and render a half mast hoisting of the flag to show respect to the departed. At the end of the day, it is advisable to put down the flag and fold it carefully in the proper manner for safekeeping and storage overnight.
For those of you who would want to know a quick run-through of how to properly fold your American flag, make sure that you start the fold and exposing the field of blue. Beginning at the striped end, make triangular folds until you have reached the field of blue and onto the end of the flag. While it is almost a crime (and it actually is) to desecrate any flag, your own American flag should not be given any kind of that treatment. If you want to dispose of a worn out and tattered flag, it would be nice to donate it to your local Boy scout troop, as they have this ceremony of giving honor to a passing of a flag by burning it via traditional means.
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The Flagman
