The POW/MIA flag is an American icon that has great depth in meaning. As you drive down the street and see someone correctly displaying the black and white flag, think about what it truly represents. Courageous men and women, heroes, who both risked their stay or lost their lives to protect our freedoms we enjoy in America. Most of us couldn't begin to grasp what it might have been like to either be lacking in action, or a prisoner of war.

An attention-grabbing fact about the POW/MIA flag is that it is not trademarked. Which suggests anyone can reproduce it. In 1970, Annin & Co. designed and manufactured the POW/MIA flag. They determined to be further generous, so that they did not copywrite or trademark the design, thus permitting any flag producer the ability to make and promote the extremely reverenced design.

The POW/MIA flag has a number of flag display guidelines unique to it. Listed here are a few of the main points of POW/MIA flag etiquette and guidelines of show:

1. When flying the POW/MIA flag on the same pole {as the outdoor American flag, it should be the identical measurement or one measurement smaller than the American flag and be flown just beneath the Nationwide Colors.

2. When the POW/MIA flag is to be displayed as a part of a group of flagpoles, it may either be displayed on its own flagpole or once more beneath the U.S. flag. A state flag may be displayed by itself on the second flagpole, to the precise of the American and POW flags as you face the constructing and flagpoles.

3. On Half Workers days: Peace Officers Memorial Day (Could fifteenth), Memorial Day (the last Monday in May - from sunrise until noon), Patriot Day (September eleventh), Pearl Harbor Memorial Day (December seventh), and on different days as directed by the President of the United States - the POW/MIA also needs to be lowered to half employees along with the National Colors.

4. POW/MIA Flag Recognition Day is noticed on the Third Friday of each September. On POW/MIA Remembrance Day, the POW/MIA flag should not be lowered to half workers, but needs to be flown (particularly over the next areas) at full staff together with the U.S. flag: the Capitol and the White Home in Washington, DC, the Korean Warfare and Vietnam Veterans Conflict Memorials, each Nationwide Cemetery, any constructing containing the official workplaces of the Secretary of State, the workplaces of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, the offices of the Director of the Selective Service System, every major navy installation, every VA Medical Center, and every Post Office.

It doesn't matter if you are a veteran or not, Fly the POW/MIA Flag out of respect for those men and women who fought for our country and either died or was a prisoner of war.