For other uses, see The 48-star flag was in use from 1912 to 1959, the second longest-used U.S. flag. Some private use is year-round, but becomes widespread on civic holidays like The United States Flag Code outlines certain guidelines for the use, display, and disposal of the flag. 70180, and Cable No. However, there are scripts read by non-government organizations and also by the Air Force that are used during the flag folding ceremony. Ferguson not only points to the violence of some in our society as the sole source of its enervation, but he lays part of the blame on the embarrassing state of education in this country and the rest of the West.This cultural illness could be fatal to freedom, and the sad fact is that it was diagnosed decades ago by those who could see the symptoms developing.In a pamphlet published in July 1959 called “Education and the Individual,” Richard Weaver warned, “If there is one single condition necessary to the survival of truth and of values in our civilization, it is that the educational system be left independent enough to espouse these truths and values regardless of the political winds of doctrine of the moment.”Weaver wasn’t finished. The Constitution came about a decade later, during what was indisputably “an era of slavery,” assuming that phrase means a time when there were slaves in the United States.I say in the United States because there are many countries where slavery is still practiced, unlike the country so despised by Kaepernick, Nike, and others, where that pernicious practice was completely abolished over 150 years ago.Finally whether Betsy Ross really sewed that 13-star flag isn’t historically significant. What matters is moving the needle. The 48-star flag was in effect for 47 years until the 49-star version became official on July 4, 1959. When a flag is so tattered that it can no longer serve as a symbol of the United States, it should be destroyed in a dignified manner, preferably by burning. The crowd called them white supremacists. 70001, Cable No. It was not, pardon the pun, created whole cloth by Betsy Ross or any other identifiable person.As early as 1704, the ships of the English East India Company sailed under a flag with 13 red and white stripes with the cross of St. George in the canton (a square in the upper right-hand corner). Not one of the men and women alive in 1776 was unaware of the blight of slavery — an immoral institution that was found throughout the several states — and not one of them would have thought the then-new symbol of their union to be a banner promoting one man’s enslavement of another.In fact, had such a suggestion percolated to the surface of the collective conscience in the 1770s, there is no way that the 13-star flag would have received the approval of Congress, many members of which were Quakers and thus zealous abolitionists.As a side note, an article appeared after Nike nixed the sale of the shoes with the “Betsy Ross flag” claiming that Betsy Ross herself was a Quaker and an abolitionist. As the long winter of 1861 turned into spring, that old flag meant something new. That of itself is not proof that Ross didn’t sew the historic symbol, though.
She and her first husband, John, operated a profitable upholstery shop out of the house the couple rented in Philadelphia. These scripts range from historical timelines of the flag to religious themes.Traditionally, the flag of the United States plays a role in "American Flag" and "Flag of the USA" redirect here. Similarly, when the flag is to be lowered from half-staff, it should be first briefly hoisted to the top of the staff.Federal statutes provide that the flag should be flown at half-staff on the following dates: