FLAG INFORMATION

Question 1

While passing the colors or while the colors are passing you, when is the hand salute rendered?

Answer 1

Six paces before and after

Question 2

What do the stripes on the U.S flag represent?

Answer 2

The original thirteen colonies

Question 3

What is the proper way to raise and lower a U.S flag?

Answer 3

It should be raised and lowered is a hurry to keep it from getting dirty

Question 4

When flying more than one flag on a single halyard where is the U.S flag placed?

Answer 4

At the peak of the staff, unless at the United Nations or at a religious service at sea

Question 5

How do you properly dispose of a flag that is old or worn?

Answer 5

You should destroy it as a whole, privately, respectfully, and traditional by burning it

Question 7

Who in 1777 established the first stars and stripes flag of the U.S?

Answer 7

The continental congress