{"id":1932192,"date":"2023-05-17T00:28:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T04:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/something-odd-reportedly-happened-to-american-flag-flying-outside-of-the-us-capitol\/"},"modified":"2023-05-17T00:28:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T04:28:34","slug":"something-odd-reportedly-happened-to-american-flag-flying-outside-of-the-us-capitol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/something-odd-reportedly-happened-to-american-flag-flying-outside-of-the-us-capitol\/","title":{"rendered":"Something Odd Reportedly Happened to American Flag Flying Outside of the US Capitol"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsomething-odd-reportedly-happened-to-american-flag-flying-outside-of-the-us-capitol%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1932192&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>    News  <\/p>\n<p>Onlookers noticed something unusual about the flag flying over the U.S. Senate recently. (Stefani Reynolds &#8211; Bloomberg Creative \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>  \u00a0By Jack Davis   \u00a0May 16, 2023 at 3:54pm      The symbol of distress appeared Tuesday outside the U.S. Capitol, with some calling it an apt image of the state of the nation.<\/p>\n<p> A social media flurry took place Tuesday after images circulated of the flag flying upside down outside the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p> The flag code addresses the subject.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe 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,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n<p>  Some reported that a hardware malfunction was to blame.<\/p>\n<p>        Earlier this month, a proclamation from President Joe Biden said flags should be flown at half-staff Monday marking Peace Officers Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>  Last year, according to People, upside-down American flags became protest symbols.<\/p>\n<p> Some protesters marched with upside-down American flags in protests after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Roe v. Wade ruling that made abortion legal everywhere in America.<\/p>\n<p>  Demonstrators on the other end of the political spectrum used the upside-down U.S. flag in a wave of protests that followed the FBI\u2019s raid on former President Donald Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago estate.<\/p>\n<p>  Is America a nation in distress?<\/p>\n<p>     Sometimes, an upside-down flag is just a mistake.<\/p>\n<p> In 2021, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice appealed for mercy on behalf of a state worker who hung the flag upside down in front of the state capitol, according to Metro News.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cIt was this gentleman\u2019s first time hanging the flag and he was switching it out at midday because the old flag was becoming tattered and worn,\u201d Justice said, responding to social media concerns.<\/p>\n<p> The man wanted a new flag \u201cto fly high over this wonderful Capitol so that we can appropriately honor our country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cWe don\u2019t need to humiliate or throw stones. We all make mistakes,\u201d Justice said then.<\/p>\n<p>   SummaryMore Biographical InformationRecent PostsContact<\/p>\n<p> Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.<\/p>\n<p>   Jack Davis is a freelance writer who joined The Western Journal in July 2015 and chronicled the campaign that saw President Donald Trump elected. Since then, he has written extensively for The Western Journal on the Trump administration as well as foreign policy and military issues.<br \/>\n Jack can be reached at jackwritings1@gmail.com. <\/p>\n<p> Location <\/p>\n<p> New York City <\/p>\n<p> Languages Spoken <\/p>\n<p> English <\/p>\n<p> Topics of Expertise <\/p>\n<p> Politics, Foreign Policy, Military &#038; Defense Issues <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Onlookers noticed something unusual about the flag flying over the U.S. Senate recently. (Stefani Reynolds &#8211; Bloomberg Creative \/ Getty Images) \u00a0By Jack Davis \u00a0May 16, 2023 at 3:54pm The symbol of distress appeared Tuesday outside the U.S. Capitol, with some calling it an apt image of the state of the nation. A social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":1932193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[4123,4172,6867,6328,9694,18816,4292],"class_list":["post-1932192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-american","tag-capitol","tag-flag","tag-flying","tag-happened","tag-odd","tag-reportedly"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1932192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1932192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1932193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1932192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1932192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1932192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}