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Poll Question: How do you teach your children to respect your country's flag?
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Happy Flag Day to 4Real members in the United States!

All members, please share how your family shows respect to your country's flag by voting for as many choices as is fitting. If you have time, elaborate! Thank you for participating.

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NOTE: you can vote multiple times.

To do this you choose your first answer and click "cast vote"

then choose you next answer and click "cast vote"

etc.

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We're lucky enough to live near Baltimore and DC, so we've been able to visit the Star-Spangled Banner House, Fort McHenry and the Museum of American History (home of the original Star-Spangled Banner). If you ever have the chance to visit any of these places, I highly recommend them all. (And if you go to Ft. McHenry at opening or closing time, you can help raise or lower the big flag!)

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I love going to baseball games, watching an entire stadium of fans stop their chatting and pre-game chaos to stand and give attention to the flag while singing the National Anthem. I get choked up every single time.

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When we study US history we always spend some time talking about the history and symbolism of the flag. The kids often love to make paper flags on flag day and 4th of July especially if I give them a sheet of sticky stars to decorate them with.
My boys have both done flag ceremonies(lots) and flag retirements through boy scouts and have learned flag etiquette that way.

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We periodically revisit the US flag/Patriotic Unit that I did several years ago. That year we focused on it between Flag Day and Independence Day. I just added a couple picture books we found for the song "You're a Grand Old Flag." There are lots of great picture books on the US flag.

We really should fly the flag more often. I go in spurts. Around the time we did the study we were really diligent about flying it more frequently. Not recently though, so this is a good reminder.

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We're lucky enough to live near Baltimore and DC, so we've been able to visit the Star-Spangled Banner House, Fort McHenry and the Museum of American History (home of the original Star-Spangled Banner). If you ever have the chance to visit any of these places, I highly recommend them all. (And if you go to Ft. McHenry at opening or closing time, you can help raise or lower the big flag!)


Nancy, I heartily agree. We visited both last summer during our viist there. The newly redone exhibit at Smithsonian's Museum of American History is phenomenal. I remember when the the flag just hung on the wall and that was it - this is a really spectacualr display and intended to really preserve the flag which has deteriorated a lot due to exposure.

It is my understanding that there are big plans in the making right now for a Star-Spangled Banner and War of 1812 Bicentennial. When we visited Ft. McHenry last year the guide shared how the new visitor center is being built and set to open this fall - in plenty of time to be ready for the bicentennial which will start in 2012. They sound like they have big plans for that year.

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We live in the UK and people don't get all that het up about our flags/s. What we do is make sure our children know the difference between the Union Jack and the St George's flag and what each one stands for, and that's that. Our son has a Union Jack he has in his room at the moment, but the previous Union jacks and St George's cross flags got wrecked in play and I guess this one will too which is fine. We do sometimes explain symbolism of flags at half mast or what flag is flown when and why (ie around the royal family etc) when it comes up. We had a march for our local regiment when they came home from Afghanistan and we waved our flags then if that counts as respecting them, I don't know!
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We have a big flagpole in our front yard. We put it up during my son's first deployment. We also say the Pledge of Allegiance ever yday after the Angelus and noon prayers. We have a very small flag next to a statue of Our Lady.

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I actually could have answered yes to more than one of those :)

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I actually could have answered yes to more than one of those :)


You can vote multiple times in order to make all your choices. It just won't let you vote for more than one in the same vote.

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We have a big flagpole in our front yard. We put it up during my son's first deployment. We also say the Pledge of Allegiance ever yday after the Angelus and noon prayers. We have a very small flag next to a statue of Our Lady.


I can picture it, Mary Ann .

Recently I reorganized my living/family room and somehow our little flag didn't find a new home. Thanks to your reminder, Mary Ann, I just purchased a new little flag to place by a statue of Our Lady, too.

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I think the best way was to marry a Marine!

Seriously, when a man says something with conviction, it is contagious. We do read about flag respect and practice it in different ways, but the Dad influence has been strong here in this house!

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LucyP wrote:
We live in the UK and people don't get all that het up about our flags/s. What we do is make sure our children know the difference between the Union Jack and the St George's flag and what each one stands for, and that's that.


Lucy

So glad you wrote this, I've written and deleted my response three times in this thread So it's a cultural thing, whew.
I didn't vote anywhere because we are the same here in Australia about flags. don't get me wrong we are fiercely proud to be Australians but our patriotism focuses on other 'icons'. Not to say we aren't proud to see our flag fly but we don't show it in the same way.

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Erin wrote:
   don't get me wrong we are fiercely proud to be Australians but our patriotism focuses on other 'icons'.   


Interesting! What are the other icons.

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We live on base, so everyday at 5pm the Star Spangled Banner is played. Cars pull over and stop, everyone outside stops what they are doing, place their hands over their hearts and face a flag or the direction of the music. Once it’s over, things resume as usual.



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At home we had a flagpole in our front garden. It had a light on it, so we flew the American flag with the Vatican flag underneath it. Having scouts and a dh that was the scoutmaster contributed a lot to our knowledge of the flag.

One of the leaders in our scout troop was retired Navy. He flew a fighter plane in Vietnam and every year at scout camp (and on other occassions as well), he would do a flag retirement. He always had a great story to go along with the ceremony and of course it was a great teaching experience for the boys and their families. Everyone knew where to take their flags when they were too old to be used.

On Memorial Day, the scouts would go to the cemetary and hang flags for all the soldiers who were buried there. We always had a ceremony as well. We certainly liked participating in that as well.

And now that we are expats, we keep our flag hung in our school room. We say the pledge every school morning. My dc are older, but when they were younger, they learned about the flag, etiquette, the history of the flag. We did art projects and we also visited the home where Betsy Ross lived when she sewed the flag.

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This poll closes tomorrow. Please vote and share your experience! Thank you to all who have participated.

Any other Americans have tears in their eyes from watching the World Cup openning just a few minutes ago while singing the National Anthem and saluting the flag? Our household does!

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