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 Help a Hero Call Home.
Operation Uplink is a program created by VFW in 1996 to provide
free long distance calling time to our nation's most deserving heroes — deployed
troops and hospitalized veterans. These free prepaid phone cards make it possible
for our heroes — past and present — to make long distance phone calls to family
and friends they would not otherwise be able to make.
Hire a Veteran.
If you're in a hiring position, be sure to visit
www.vetjobs.com — a website sponsored and partly
owned by the VFW — for a nationwide listing of recently discharged veterans and
their families seeking employment. Also, if you are a veteran seeking employment,
you may post your resume on this website.
Support the VFW.
Donations are tax-deductible, and do so much to help deserving veterans and their
families. Thank you!
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How to Fly The American Flag
Ten Guidelines
- The flag should be hoisted
briskly and lowered ceremoniously.
- The flag is never allowed
to touch the ground or the floor.
- When hung over a sidewalk
on a rope extending from a building to a pole, the union stars are always
away from the building.
- When vertically hung over
the center of the street, the flag always has the union star to the north
in an east/west street, and to the east in a north/south street.
- The flag of the United
States of America should be at the center and at the highest point of the
group when a number of flags of States or localities or pennants of societies
are grouped and displayed from staffs.
- The flag should never
be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds but always allowed to fall free.
- The flag should be displayed
at half-staff until noon on Memorial Day then raised to the top of the staff.
- Never fly the flag upside
down except as a signal of distress in instance of extreme danger to life
or property.
- The flag is never flown
in inclement weather except when using an all-weather flag.
- The flag can be flown
every day from sunrise to sunset and at night if illuminated property.
Flag Display Days
| New Year's Day |
January 1st |
| Inauguration Day |
January 20th |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
3rd Monday in January |
| Lincoln's Birthday |
February 12th |
| Washington's Birthday Observed (President's Day) |
3rd Monday in February |
| Easter Sunday |
variable |
| Mother's Day |
2nd Sunday in May |
| Peace Officers Memorial Day (half-staff until sunset) |
May 15th |
| Armed Forces Day |
3rd Saturday in May |
| Memorial Day (half-staff until noon) |
last Monday in May |
| Flag Day |
June 14th |
| Independence Day |
July 4th |
| National Korean War Armistice Day (half-staff until sunset) |
July 27th |
| Labor Day |
1st Monday in September |
| Patriot Day (half-staff until sunset) |
September 11th |
| POW/MIA Recognition Day |
3rd Friday in September |
| Constitution Day (Citizenship Day) |
September 17th |
| Columbus Day |
2nd Monday in October |
| Navy Day |
October 27th |
| Veterans Day |
November 11th |
| Thanksgiving Day |
4th Thursday in November |
| National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day (half-staff until sunset) |
December 7th |
| Christmas Day |
December 25th |
and such other days as may be proclaimed by the President of the
United States; the birthday of States (date of admission); and on State
holidays.
Information outlined above is part of the Federal Flag Code or enacted by Federal
legislation. Fly you POW/MIA flag with your American flag on Armed Forces Day, Memorial
Day, Flag Day, Independence Day, National POW/MIA Recognition Day and Veterans Day.
For more information regarding flag history, the Federal Flag Code, or how to
properly display the U.S. flag, please refer to the VFW Website,
www.vfw.org, or to the "Our Flag" brochure available
for purchase in bundles of 25 from VFW Emblem and Supply, product 4421.
Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States
Processing Center P.O. Box 8942 Topeka,
KS 66608-8942
www.vfw.org
Created: 9/07/2004 7:02 PM
Modified: 9/07/2004 8:12 PM
Created: 07 Sep 2004 19:02:36 -0700
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