Flag Protocol Ignored in Veterans Day Parade

From the 2014 Veterans Day Parade in Austin, Texas, a well-intentioned but nonetheless flawed effort at honoring the flag...

2014 Veterans' Day Parade, Austin Texas.

According to the U.S. Flag Code, you never, NEVER carry the American Flag parallel to the ground like a dead body.

Yes, I know they display The Flag that way in football games all the time. But the fact is that they're doing it WRONG, according to the U.S. Flag Code.

§176. Respect for flag

No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing. Regimental colors, State flags, and organization or institutional flags are to be dipped as a mark of honor.

• (a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
• (b) The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the floor, water, or merchandise.
• (c) The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
• (d) The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker's desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general.....

I wish more people knew about this simple set of rules and learned to honor the traditions.