American Flag

My dad used to tell me that you can judge a person's character by what they do when nobody's watching. By that measure, this delivery driver has great character as he found a family's American flag fallen and proceeded to fix it and then saluted it.

Accorded to Flag Code, only the President of the United States or a state Governor can order the U.S. Flag to half-staff status.

Drive one block and there is a flag at half-staff. Turn the corner and another flag is at full staff. Why is this happening?

Am I the only one who has noticed lately that American Flags in the Quincy area are being flown lately at full and half-staff on the same days? Drive one block and there is a flag at half-staff. Turn the corner and another flag is at full staff. It was always my understanding that the flag could only be lowered to half-staff by an order of the President of the United States.  So I did some researc

A few weeks ago I posted a picture of a flag in Quincy that was tattered and torn and needed to be removed. So with the help of Dawn Whitcomb at the Illinois Veteran's Home who provided me with a new flag, Tim Gottman of Sign Pro and I proceeded to take down the tattered flag and replace it with the new one. That effort was successful at least until yesterday when I went past the location around 8

For weeks there has been a very tattered flag "hanging" on a flag pole between 8th and 9th on Broadway in Quincy. I had hoped the owner would have removed or replaced it. That had not happened. No matter where this flag would have been located, it needed to be disposed of. The fact that it was located on Quincy's busiest street made it even worse. Well, I am happy to report that tattered

I have been waiting patiently for weeks to see if the owner of this American Flag will do the right thing and replace it with a new one and it has not happened yet.