User:Ragityman/Scott note draft


 * Thank you for your explanation. That makes perfect sense, and I do seem to remember, from my days in the Boy Scouts, some instruction re: the proper display of the U.S. flag on a wall.  To hang the flag with the stripes vertical and the field of stars to the left, we were told, was preferable to any other orientition.  In this position, the width would be the width of the bolt of cloth used in a solid-color flag.

We were also instructed, I remember distinctly, that the flag should never be flown after dark. Over the years I've had arguments about this, and I was even approached by guests at a hotel where I worked, who were concerned that we didn't lower the flag each evening. I think customs like this, which once had broad subscription across our culture, are falling along the path. Excuses are many, but there is an underlying apathy