"alexy"
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> "no surrender"
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> >
> >"alexy"
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> >> United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 Section 8 Paragraph d:
> >> :The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.
> >> :It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always
> >> :allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged
> >> :with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below,
should
> >> :be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the
platform,
> >> :and for decoration in general..
> >*****
> >Small point of order, that section of the US Code is not "law," but
> >recommendations.
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> I'm not sure of the "law" versus "recommendations" terminology, but
> there certainly are no enforcement or penalty provisions, which make
> it substantively recommendations. But I see no problem with a school
> having rules that enforce those recommendations.
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Nor do I, but that's substantially different from banning the American flag
from an American school.
Dennis
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