We fly Old Glory every day — weather permitting. The photo to the right is a morning shot after our first frost here in Mississippi.
We have a flagpole with solar lights on the top so we can keep her flying at night. Nothing like the Stars and Stripes on a clear night with too many stars to count in the background!
While some attack what Old Glory stands for, we fly her proudly. Hope you will do the same!
My Name is Old Glory; Long May I Wave
Below are the official 2023 dates that are recognized as days to raise the Flag, including when you should fly at half-staff.
Days to Raise the American Flag
New Year’s Day: January 1
Martin Luther King Jr. Day: January 16
Lincoln’s Birthday: February 12
President’s Day: February 20
Washington’s Birthday: February 22
National Vietnam War Veterans Day: March 29
Easter / National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day: April 9
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him – it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker Hill meant; which was, in short, the rising up of a valiant young people against an old tyranny to establish the most momentous doctrine that the world had ever known – the right of men to their own selves and to their liberties.
Henry Ward Beecher
“Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there…”
Mother’s Day: May 8
Peace Officer’s Memorial Day: May 15 (half-staff)
Armed Forces Day: May 20
Memorial Day: May 29 (half-staff until noon)
Remember D-Day: June 6
Flag Day / Army’s Birthday: June 14
Father’s Day: June 18
Independence Day: July 4
National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day: July 27
Coast Guard’s Birthday: August 4
Purple Heart Day: August 7th
I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself, the pictured suggestion of that big thing that makes this nation. My stars and my stripes are your dreams and your labors. They are bright with cheer, brilliant with courage, firm with faith because you have made them so out of your heart. For you are the makers of the flag, and it is well that you glory in the making.
Franklin Knight Lane
“Star-spangled banner yet wave…”
VJ Day: September 2
Labor Day: September 4
Patriot Day: September 11 (half-staff)
POW/MIA Recognition Day: September 15
Constitution Day: September 17
Air National Guard Birthday: September 18
Air Force Birthday: September 18
Gold Star Mother’s Day: September 25
National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Day: October 8 (half-staff)
Columbus Day: October 9
Navy Day: October 27
Election Day: November 7
The flag of the United States has not been created by rhetorical sentences in declarations of independence and in bills of rights. It has been created by the experience of a great people, and nothing is written upon it that has not been written by their life. It is the embodiment, not of a sentiment, but of a history.
Woodrow Wilson
“The land of the free and the home of the brave…”
Marine Corps Birthday: November 10
Veterans Day: November 11
Thanksgiving Day: November 23
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day: December 7 (half-staff)
National Guard’s Birthday: December 13
Christmas Day: December 25
The American Flag does not fly because the wind moves past it. The American Flag flies from the last breath of each Soldier, Sailor, Airman, and Marine who has died protecting it.
Author Unknown
Birthdays of States: (raise on the date of admission)
I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Every Red-Blooded American Patriot
Here’s to a Happy, Healthy, Safe, and Prosperous 2023!
