PO1 Rick Serviss1365799<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I bought small American flag, New York State flag and U. S. Navy flag and three stands. They're small enough to display on my desk and I want to put them in a row. If I am standing in front of my desk, looking at them which would be on my left, middle and right? I tried google search but kind of confusing.How are flags displayed?2016-03-09T05:20:57-05:00PO1 Rick Serviss1365799<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I bought small American flag, New York State flag and U. S. Navy flag and three stands. They're small enough to display on my desk and I want to put them in a row. If I am standing in front of my desk, looking at them which would be on my left, middle and right? I tried google search but kind of confusing.How are flags displayed?2016-03-09T05:20:57-05:002016-03-09T05:20:57-05:00SFC Vernon McNabb1365810<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would think you could put them in any order, but the American Flag should be slightly higher. If it were me, I would put them from L-R (NY Flag, American Flag, Navy Flag).Response by SFC Vernon McNabb made Mar 9 at 2016 5:38 AM2016-03-09T05:38:39-05:002016-03-09T05:38:39-05:00MSgt Private RallyPoint Member1365824<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The American flag is always to the left as you are looking at them. If you have flag poles the American flag should be higher then the others. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.usflag.org/flagetiquette.html">http://www.usflag.org/flagetiquette.html</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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<a target="blank" href="http://www.usflag.org/flagetiquette.html">USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the UnitedStates of America - Flag Etiquette</a>
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<p class="pta-link-card-description">Find answers to common and uncommon questions about the United States Flag and its evolution. Information on Flag etiquette and the U.S. Flag Code. Patriotic poems, hymns, and essays.</p>
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Response by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 9 at 2016 6:16 AM2016-03-09T06:16:20-05:002016-03-09T06:16:20-05:00CMSgt Mark Schubert1365842<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Good question - When flown with flags of states, communities, or societies on separate flag poles which are of the same height and in a straight line, the flag of the United States is always placed in the position of honor - to its own right.<br /><br />Picture of "its own right" included here - <br /><a target="_blank" href="http://alabamavva.org/displayflag.html">http://alabamavva.org/displayflag.html</a><br /><br />More info here:<br /><a target="_blank" href="http://www.flagandbannersupply.com/flag-etiquette.htm">http://www.flagandbannersupply.com/flag-etiquette.htm</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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<a target="blank" href="http://alabamavva.org/displayflag.html">display the flag from sunrise to sunset</a>
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<p class="pta-link-card-description">The Flag Code, which formalizes and unifies the traditional ways in which we give respect to the flag, also contains specific instructions on how the flag is not to be used. They are:</p>
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Response by CMSgt Mark Schubert made Mar 9 at 2016 6:42 AM2016-03-09T06:42:10-05:002016-03-09T06:42:10-05:00CSM Private RallyPoint Member1366438<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The American Flag is always to the left as you are looking at it unless, you are putting up flags at the U.N. or other multi-national events. The flags will then be placed in alphabetical order from the left (as you're looking at them).Response by CSM Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 9 at 2016 10:39 AM2016-03-09T10:39:24-05:002016-03-09T10:39:24-05:00MSgt Private RallyPoint Member1366726<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I would suggest getting a desk display that would allow you to place the flags with the US Flag straight up and the other two angled away from itResponse by MSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 9 at 2016 12:03 PM2016-03-09T12:03:03-05:002016-03-09T12:03:03-05:001SG Charles Hunter1366774<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>CMSgt Mark Schubert's answer is spot on as far as it goes. The US flag always occupies the place of honor, i.e., on the viewer's left as he/she stands in front of your desk. None of the references give the slightest clue as to the precedence of state and service flags. Anybody know?Response by 1SG Charles Hunter made Mar 9 at 2016 12:14 PM2016-03-09T12:14:09-05:002016-03-09T12:14:09-05:00SCPO Private RallyPoint Member1367014<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>It's the same as if this were an auditorium: you are the crowd, the main body, the viewer. The American flag will stand to your left, then the NY state flag, then the US Navy flag. As you view the American Flag, nothing stands, is flown, or is carried to "her" right.Response by SCPO Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 9 at 2016 1:20 PM2016-03-09T13:20:09-05:002016-03-09T13:20:09-05:00SSG Richard Reilly1372731<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/more/displayonly.htm">http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/more/displayonly.htm</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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<p class="pta-link-card-description">Betsy Ross sewed the first American flag. Betsy Ross House. Betsy Ross, George Washington and the flag. Betsy Ross's life. Cut a 5-pointed star in one snip. Flag facts.</p>
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Response by SSG Richard Reilly made Mar 11 at 2016 1:32 PM2016-03-11T13:32:34-05:002016-03-11T13:32:34-05:002016-03-09T05:20:57-05:00