{"id":189,"date":"2003-10-20T01:35:25","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T08:35:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-10-20T01:35:25","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T08:35:25","slug":"fact-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/20\/fact-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fact of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/antiwar.com\/blog\/usflagdistress.gif\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I am not sure the <a href=\"http:\/\/flag.blackened.net\/blackflag\/\">Black Flag<\/a> (teenage anarchists) knows that their standard &#8220;upside down flag&#8221; has real meaning:<\/p>\n<p>* United States Code (The Collected Laws of the United States)<br \/>\nTitle 4, Chapter 1 &#8211; The Flag<br \/>\nSec. 8. Respect for flag<br \/>\nSubSec. (a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, <b>except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>I found this little tidbit at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpfo.org\/alert20020628.htm\">JPFO<\/a>. Its Executive Director Aaron Zelman explains his reason for flying the stars and stripes upside down:<\/p>\n<ul>One recent afternoon I was working outdoors when a stranger rode up on a motorcycle and started giving me a hard time. No, he wasn&#8217;t an outlaw biker; he was an ordinary patriotic American. But he didn&#8217;t like what he saw in my front yard.<\/p>\n<p>It was a U.S. flag. But it was flying upside-down, as it always does at the Zelman household.<\/p>\n<p>He growled that he was a Vietnam vet and that he&#8217;d fought for that flag, and he didn&#8217;t like me showing it disrespect. I answered that I was also a Vietnam vet. But I told him that he _hadn&#8217;t_ fought for the flag (which is only a symbol); he&#8217;d fought for the Bill of Rights &#8212; the document that sets America apart from lesser countries. <\/p>\n<p>And I told him that flying the flag upside-down was as great a sign of respect for my country as I could think of. After all, America is in trouble, and flying its flag upside-down is a sign of distress. The inverted flag calls out to everybody who sees: &#8220;Please help the United States. Don&#8217;t let the most promising nation on earth fall into tyranny.&#8221;<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not sure the Black Flag (teenage anarchists) knows that their standard &#8220;upside down flag&#8221; has real meaning: * United States Code (The Collected Laws of the United States) Title 4, Chapter 1 &#8211; The Flag Sec. 8. Respect for flag SubSec. (a) The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}