NELSON, USA CLUB

We celebrated with 32 people this year and had our fill of BBQ food.  There was buffalo wings, pizza, baked beans, kebabs, hot dogs, coleslaw, potato salad, potato chips, oreo cookies, m&m cookies & pumpkin pie with cream. We hung the flags and decorated the tables as well as showing slides of kids in their parade gear and fireworks displays from around the US.  It was a very sucessful first event for the Nelson, USA Club and we’re all looking forward to getting together again for Halloween in October!  Here are some photos of our evening…

Words by Francis Scott Key, (1780)
Music by John Stafford Smith

Oh say can you see by the dawn’s early light
What so proudly we hail at the twilight’s last gleaming?
Whose broad stripes & bright stars, through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

When and Where to Fly the U.S. Flag:

• On buildings and flagpoles outdoors, display only from sunrise to sunset
• Never leave the flag out in stormy, rainy or bad weather
• Never let the flag touch the ground
• Raise it with hearty briskness and lower it slowly with solemnity
• The blue field with the stars should be at the peak of a staff
• When displayed over the middle of a street, it should be suspended vertically. On a street running east and west, the blue field points north; in a street running north and south, the blue field points east. 

DISPLAY DATES FOR THE U.S. FLAG

• New Year’s Day, Jan. 1
• Martin Luther King Day. 3rd Monday Jan.
• Inauguration Day Jan. 20 (every 4 years)
• Lincoln’s Birthday Feb 12
• Washington’s Birthday 3rd Monday in Feb.
• Easter Sunday
• Army Day, April 6
• V-E Day, May 8
• Mother’s Day, 2nd Sunday May
• Armed Forces Day, 3rd Sunday in May
• Memorial Day (half-staff until noon), last Monday in May
• Flag Day, June 14
• Father’s Day, 4th Sunday in June (thanks for the reminder!)
• Independence Day, July 4
• Labor Day, 1st Monday in September
• V-J Day, Sept 2
• Anniversary of the writing of the Star Spangled Banner, Sept 14
• Constitution Day, Sept 17
• Columbus Day, 2nd Monday in Oct.
• Navy Day, Oct 27
• Presidential Election Day, 1st Tuesday after 1st Monday in Nov.
• Veteran’s Day, Nov 11
• Thanksgiving Day, 4th Thursday in Nov.
• Christmas Day, Dec. 25