Comments on: Old Glory, after dark: veterans test proposed lighting atop Mount Soledad http://www.lajollalight.com/2012/07/19/old-glory-after-dark-veterans-test-proposed-lighting-atop-mount-soledad/ Enlightening La Jolla since 1913 Fri, 24 May 2013 18:51:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: La Jolla Vet http://www.lajollalight.com/2012/07/19/old-glory-after-dark-veterans-test-proposed-lighting-atop-mount-soledad/#comment-250418 La Jolla Vet Sun, 05 Aug 2012 01:28:09 +0000 http://www.lajollalight.com/?p=91381#comment-250418 Thank you to those who have been keeping Mount Soledad following the code. Details are appreciated by those who notice. Such things bring honor to our great country. While your service of this particular duty wanes, perhaps there is another duty at Mount Soledad that could help unite all the diverse people of our nation. UNITED STATES CODE TITLE 36 CHAPTER 10 <a href="http://www.usflag.org/us.code36.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.usflag.org/us.code36.html</a> §174 Time and occasions for display (a) Display on buildings and stationary flagstaffs in open; night display It is the universal custom to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open. However, when a patriotic effect is desired, the flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness. Thank you to those who have been keeping Mount Soledad following the code. Details are appreciated by those who notice. Such things bring honor to our great country. While your service of this particular duty wanes, perhaps there is another duty at Mount Soledad that could help unite all the diverse people of our nation.

UNITED STATES CODE TITLE 36 CHAPTER 10 http://www.usflag.org/us.code36.html

§174 Time and occasions for display

(a) Display on buildings and stationary flagstaffs in open; night display
It is the universal custom to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open. However, when a patriotic effect is desired, the flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness.

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