Comments on: Memorialize the Folding of the American Flag

By: Marty Nachel

Marty Nachel — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:34:27 +0000

This version of the flag-folding ceremony is clearly a Judeo-Christian rendering and might be viewed as being offensive to those of other belief systems.

Furthermore, your article gives the appearance of being an “official” (government sanctioned) flag ceremony -which it most definitely is not. This article should include a post script saying so.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:13:55 +0000

A real effort to codify flag law took place in Washington, D.C. in June 1923, and a second National Flag Conference was held in 1924. From these we have the foundation of what is today our U.S. Flag Code. Marc Leepson gives some insight into the conference in his book, Flag: An American Biography.

… The conferees did, indeed agree on the nation’s first Flag Code. They based it heavily on a War Department Flag Circular that had been published earlier in the year. …

… The code also included the Pledge of Allegiance and the proper ways to render it, as well as a section on the proper ways to respect the flag. …

… There was, however, an anti-socialist, anticommunist, political dimension to the conference. Harding administration secretary of labor James J. Davis expressed the gist of that feeling when he warned the conference that “disrespect for the flag” was one of the “first steps” toward communist revolution.

For more flag comments see http://www.flagsbay.com/flag/brief-history-of-the-united-states-flag-code/

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:08:29 +0000

Could you provide me a place to go to that I might establish the first time the folding of the flag was used, how it was established and who or what branch of service was the first to use the folding of the flag. The Marines just celebrated a birthday and they were formed one year before our Independance and I was just wondering if this branch of service was the first to use this methodist of folding the flag. Thanks for your time and effort.

By: smergy

smergy — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:17:33 +0000

To preserve life is the reason for the military existence, interesting. We’ve decided to police the world with our youth and resources. Your post brings out clearly the proper meaning of a soldiers existence. It is a good read for anyone prior to enlisting into any of our branches of services.

Though this is not an “official” mandated ceremonial reading by the military it ought to for it definitely puts in high regard the desire of preserving life of the enlisted and those he protects. It gives a meaning to the soldier’s existence and service.

I struggle with the idea of our services existing in well over a hundred other nations. Is this to preserve peace, plunder, or manipulate? I question often if it is wrong for our foreign policy to be now such a hyper-interventionist mode operation. This was not the intent of this nations existence to “interfere” in the affairs of other nations. We’ve become I fear international meddlers.

These meanings may not have been written in the military procedures but were definitely hidden in the hearts of the people. It is good to get these thoughts out in the open so that “We the People” may learn the heart of earlier times and not just the folding instructions of the flag for a ceremony.

For it would be indeed an even greater emptiness and loss for a mother/father to receive a neatly folded flag which represented nothing in its final folding. The Flag too will rest a final rest on the mantel, shelf and heart of the parents and loved ones.

Thanks for the post.