(h)
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.
(i)
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.
(j)
When the flag is displayed over the middle of the street, it should be
suspended vertically with the union to the north in an east and west
street or to the east in a north and south street.
Respect for flag
No
disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America;
the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental
colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be
dipped as a mark of honor.
(a)
The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a
signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or
property.
(b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
(c) The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
(d)
The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.
It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always
allowed to fall free. Bunting of
blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in
the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's
desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.
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