The flag should be hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously.

When the flag of the United States is displayed from a staff projecting horizontally or at an angle from the window sill, balcony, or front of a building, the union of the flag should be placed at the peak of the staff unless the flag is at half staff. When the flag is suspended over a sidewalk from a rope extending from a house to a pole at the edge of the sidewalk, the flag should be hoisted out, union first, from the building.

When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and to the flag's own right, that is, to the observer's left. When displayed in a window, the flag should be displayed in the same way, with the union or blue field to the left of the observer in the street.

                                      

"Remembrance"
From Neil: "I came across this yard recently completely blanketed in American Flags. In speaking to the owner, she told me, "There's one for every soldier killed in Iraq." I said, "That's a lot of flags." She somberly replied, "Yes... it is."

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