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Comments from the editor of Flag Research Quarterly
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Part 2 of a discussion of flags and flag symbolism on NASA mission patches. This article introduces the tradition of NASA mission emblems and their use in Project Gemini and the Apollo Program. Continued from Flag Research Quarterly, issue #4.
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Proper storage of materials and documents is crucial to all collecting projects. For those of us who enthusiastically assert and investigate the cultural and historical significance of something as physically dynamic and vulnerable as flags, the necessity of preservation cannot be overstated. An important part of safe storage is using materials that do not cause further damage. Direct contact between an artifact and its container or a container and its immediate physical environment can cause damage. The shelf that the box rests on, if wooden, can also affect the archival integrity of the box over time. Poor quality materials can cause acidity, off-gas, and discoloring, among other effects, that deteriorate collections. To prevent these types of damages, good quality and acid-free material should be used.
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The U.S. Flag Code is a “codification of existing rules and customs pertaining to the display and use of the flag of the United States . . . .” It was “established for the use of such civilians . . . as may not be required to conform with regulations . . . [of the U.S. Military or other] executive departments of the United States.”1 It is not a statute in the sense that it does not command or prohibit actions enforced by punitive measures. In short, there are no penalties, other than the disapproval of others, imposed for failure to comply with the Code’s provisions. There are numerous books, articles, booklets, pamphlets, and flyers that seek to clarify the Code’s fifty- odd rules and it is generally believed that the Code addresses all questions of flag display. There are also “rules” believed to be included, though not actually present in the Code, and practices now popular that were not envisioned when the code was written. While this article will examine in particular the concept of displaying the flag vertically with the stars on “the flag’s own right,” a brief historical sketch of other display conventions and the origins of the Flag Code itself will situate flag display rightly as a malleable set of conventions and traditions, not an immutable body of legally binding rules.
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