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Time to Fly Your Flag At Half Mast
Enterprise Record News Gate ^ | 5/1/10 | Chuck Wolk

Posted on 05/01/2010 3:32:29 PM PDT by Tom Hawks

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This is a good read and I must agree that all good patriotic Americans should be flying their flags at half mast as a show of solidarity towards that we all stand together. Our flags should fly at half mast until the fascists traitors have been out of office.
1 posted on 05/01/2010 3:32:29 PM PDT by Tom Hawks
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Half mast and upside-down. {A signal of distress, the sensationalized negative response of people to Arizona’s decision to USE THEIR STATE OFFICIALS to enforce FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAW.... that causes me great distress.}


2 posted on 05/01/2010 3:38:24 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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Except for Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day, I don’t fly the colors. Haven’t since the day before Inauguration Day. I do, however, fly the Gadsen Flag [4’x6’] every day. That’s my protest.


3 posted on 05/01/2010 3:39:29 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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To: Tom Hawks

Our neighbor flies his upside down and half mast.


4 posted on 05/01/2010 3:40:23 PM PDT by Isara
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Upon passage of the healthcare bill I took down the Stars and Stripes and put up the Gadsden Flag: Don’t Tread on Me


5 posted on 05/01/2010 3:41:16 PM PDT by glocker23 (Live Free Or Die)
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Yup.

Distress Flag
6 posted on 05/01/2010 3:42:23 PM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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By my way of thinking a flag at half staff shows mourning. We should be showing defiance. We need to display the rattlesnake flag (even though we have already been tread upon) RevolutionLadies
7 posted on 05/01/2010 3:43:57 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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Exactly.  Not only did I fly my once proud Michigan Wolverine flag at half-mast today, also flew it upside-down in protest of the Kenyan robber-baron who stunk up my backyard today.
8 posted on 05/01/2010 3:45:14 PM PDT by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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Sorry, but I will fly my flag at full staff despite the poor excuse for a president in the Oval Office.


9 posted on 05/01/2010 3:45:35 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: glocker23; Isara; PzLdr; OneWingedShark; Oceander

I am currently awaiting a Gadsden Flag I purchased online to be delivered.

My question is how many flags can I officially fly on one pole.

I mean for the proper etiquette?


10 posted on 05/01/2010 3:46:47 PM PDT by Tom Hawks
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“Go Buckeyes”

:-)


11 posted on 05/01/2010 3:47:21 PM PDT by meyer (It's time...)
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My question is how many flags can I officially fly on one pole.

Good question. I'm thinking of flying the Gadsden Flag below the US flag when I fly the flag for holidays.

12 posted on 05/01/2010 3:49:08 PM PDT by meyer (It's time...)
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I believe that’s “half staff”.

Sorry, my son was in the navy. I picked up these terms along the way! LOL! The “half mast” refers to flying the colors on a ship.

I’m putting up my Gadsden flag, just under the US flag. I took it down for a local Tea Party that I went to. Looks like it’s going up again.

I agree that we need to show defiance.


13 posted on 05/01/2010 3:50:31 PM PDT by sneakers
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Please don't dishonor our country by improperly flying the flag. Leave that to the America haters. I protest by flying the Texas flag, the 1824 or Alamo flag, or the Gonzales Come and Take it Flag. Flying the American flag upside down weakens our cause, IMHO.
14 posted on 05/01/2010 3:52:08 PM PDT by centexan (Welcome back 1st Cav -great job!)
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>My question is how many flags can I officially fly on one pole.
>I mean for the proper etiquette?

No limit I’m aware of... but I don’t think it’s common for more than three.


15 posted on 05/01/2010 3:52:46 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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The post office near my house was flying its flag at half staff yesterday. Anybody know why?


16 posted on 05/01/2010 3:54:55 PM PDT by murron (Proud Mom of a Marine Vet)
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To: theDentist; glocker23; Isara; PzLdr; OneWingedShark; Oceander; quantim; Monterrosa-24; OneVike; ...
Sorry, but I will fly my flag at full staff despite the poor excuse for a president in the Oval Office.

OK, but do you begrudge those of us who do?

After all, have you seen what he has already done to our military by downsizing it?



17 posted on 05/01/2010 3:55:01 PM PDT by Tom Hawks
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On the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?

Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam,
In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream:
Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion
A home and a country should leave us no more?
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps’ pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.

O, thus be it ever when freemen shall stand,
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav’n-rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation!
Then conquer we must, when our cause. it is just,
And this be our motto: “In God is our trust”
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!


The Battle for Baltimore

With Washington in ruins, the British next set their sights on Baltimore, then America’s third-largest city. Moving up the Chesapeake Bay to the mouth of the Patapsco River, they plotted a joint attack on Baltimore by land and water. On the morning of September 12, General Ross’s troops landed at North Point, Maryland, and progressed towards the city. They soon encountered the American forward line, part of an extensive network of defenses established around Baltimore in anticipation of the British assault. During the skirmish with American troops, General Ross, so successful in the attack on Washington, was killed by a sharpshooter. Surprised by the strength of the American defenses, British forces camped on the battlefield and waited for nightfall on September 13, planning to attempt another attack under cover of darkness.

Meanwhile, Britain’s naval force, buoyed by its earlier successful attack on Alexandria, Virginia, was poised to strike Fort McHenry and enter Baltimore Harbor. At 6:30 AM on September 13, 1814, Admiral Cochrane’s ships began a 25-hour bombardment of the fort. Rockets whistled through the air and burst into flame wherever they struck. Mortars fired 10- and 13-inch bombshells that exploded overhead in showers of fiery shrapnel. Major Armistead, commander of Fort McHenry and its defending force of one thousand troops, ordered his men to return fire, but their guns couldn’t reach the enemy’s ships. When British ships advanced on the afternoon of the 13th, however, American gunners badly damaged them, forcing them to pull back out of range. All through the night, Armistead’s men continued to hold the fort, refusing to surrender. That night British attempts at a diversionary attack also failed, and by dawn they had given up hope of taking the city. At 7:30 on the morning of September 14, Admiral Cochrane called an end to the bombardment, and the British fleet withdrew. The successful defense of Baltimore marked a turning point in the War of 1812. Three months later, on December 24, 1814, the Treaty of Ghent formally ended the war.

Because the British attack had coincided with a heavy rainstorm, Fort McHenry had flown its smaller storm flag throughout the battle. But at dawn, as the British began to retreat, Major Armistead ordered his men to lower the storm flag and replace it with the great garrison flag. As they raised the flag, the troops fired their guns and played “Yankee Doodle” in celebration of their victory. Waving proudly over the fort, the banner could be seen for miles around—as far away as a ship anchored eight miles down the river, where an American lawyer named Francis Scott Key had spent an anxious night watching and hoping for a sign that the city—and the nation—might be saved.


Fly the flag high, fly it proud for it is a sign that our nation might be saved.

No half mast, no upside down, but full staff and forward into battle to save our nation should be our call.


18 posted on 05/01/2010 3:59:29 PM PDT by EBH (Our First Right...."it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it,")
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The post office near my house was flying its flag at half staff yesterday. Anybody know why?

On Thursday, it was for the funeral of civil rights activist Dorothy Height: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/30/us/politics/30height.html?src=me

Not sure about yesterday, unless they forgot to raise it back up...

19 posted on 05/01/2010 4:07:59 PM PDT by mwyounce
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I can’t fly one of the large ones. I have a small flag that I put in my white flower pot. The little flag ( not a tiny tiny one but a small one) is held stable with some heavy rocks and it looks good. I can’t do the half mast or the flag will drag on the wall so I’ll just have to get one and staple the flag up side down to signal distress.
I had decided earlier on to not to fly a flag at all as long as this traitor is in the White House.


20 posted on 05/01/2010 4:14:07 PM PDT by celtic gal
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