I like having a big flag pole in front of our house. It was installed by a former owner, who was a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Here are flag flying days:
Feb 4 – Sri Lanka Independence Day (1948)
April 4 – NATO (1949)
March 10 – Tibet National Uprising Day (1959)
March 21 – J. S. Bach’s birthday (1685)
March 25 – Alameda County formation day (1853)
May 4 – City of Oakland Birthday (1852)
May 9 – Europe Day (European Commission, 1985)
May 24 – Eritrean Independence Day (1991)
Last Monday in May – Memorial Day (1868; current date 1970); half-staff til noon local time
June 14 – U.S. Flag Day (1777)
June 23 – Olympic Day (1894) + the start of the Summer and Winter Games
July 1 – Canada Day (1867)
July 1 – Hong Kong SAR Establishment Day (1997)
July 4 – American Independence Day (1776)
Aug. 15 – Israel Independence Day (1947)
Sept. 9 – California Admission Day (1850)
Sept. 16 – Mexican Independence Day (1810) – day of the Grito de Dolores
Sept. 19 – Nepal Constitution Day (2015)
Second Monday in October – Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Oct. 10 – Taiwan National Day (1911)
Oct. 24 – U.N. Day (1945)
Nov. 9 – Cambodia Independence Day (1953)
Nov. 22 – Lebanese Independence Day (1943)
Day after Thanksgiving – Native American Heritage Day
Dec 17 – Bhutan National Day (coronation of Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuk, 1st king of Bhutan, 1907)
4′ x 6′ Flag Inventory
U.S. (flown over the Capitol, 1993)
3′ x 5′ Flag Inventory
- U.S. (“Betsy Ross,” from the BR House, Philadelphia, 2021)
- U.S. (from my parents’ house)
- U.S. (Harbor Freight, 2024, made in China)
- U.S., Grand Union
- U.S., Bennington (“76”)
- Franklin, “Join, or Die”
- Pine Tree, “An Appeal to Heaven”
- California
- Muwekma Ohlone
- City of Oakland
- Ballers
- S E L L
- Oakland Athletics
- Canada
- Mexico
- United Kingdom
- Hong Kong
- Taiwan (made in Taiwan)
- Cambodia
- Nepal
- Lebanon
- Israel
- Sri Lanka
- Bhutan
- Tibet (made in Taiwan)
- Ukraine
- NATO
- Somalia (2025-6, flown in solidarity)
- Greenland (2026, flown in solidarity)
- Olympics
- United Nations
- European Union
- J. S. Bach (which I had custom made)
2′ x 3 ‘ Flag Inventory
- – Delaware
- – California
- – Oakland
In 2024, I became a member of the North American Vexillological Association.
And then there’s flag storage . . .
