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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1999
Page
7
The article outlines U S flag protocols including orientation with stars at the top on display, not lowering the flag to individuals, no upside down display except for distress, no higher flag except at the United Nations, daytime outdoor display, nighttime lighting in public places, weather protection, and half staff meaning mourning.
The Star-Spangled Banner flag at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History leaves on display for three years to undergo textile conservation. Experts will remove a 2 million stitch linen backing, clean the woolen flag with vacuum and dry-cleaning agents, and rehouse it in a climate-controlled case by 2002.
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Betty Debnar recounts how Mary Pickersgill and her daughter Caroline crafted the large 1813 flag for Fort McHenry, the 1814 siege, and Francis Scott Key’s creation of the song later adopted as national anthem in 1931. It notes battles, shipboard captivity, and the flag’s massive size and display challenges.
A sequence of lyric stanzas describing dawn light over a flag and the stars and stripes waving over a nation. It references rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air as proof the flag endures through night. The piece centers on patriotism and national identity.
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