What does it mean if the US flag is flown upside down?
Correct answer: Official signal of distress
Player #1519908
Queeny, How do you not know this as a vet? I am a Navy vet and know this very well. I guess they don't teach this to the younger generation.
Player #1081396
Queeny, I am a proud son of a Korean War vet and I knew this. Let's teach proper flag etiquette in school again, where I learned this.
mammy1027
God bless America!
sweetpeagj
Queeny, I was a military wife and even I knew the meaning. Hard to imagine active duty personnel wouldn't know this.
ErsatzWizard46974
its a good history to know
ShinyPoodle11986
Good ,History To Know.Thanks You.
TestyAlien3443
We are blessed as a country. I have never seen or even heard of the flag flying upside down.
dolphinmn
we weren't taught that but that is helpful
Qatwalk
mammy1027, and America, please bless and honor God.
Tryzub
Learned this in an episode of Black Sheep Squadron. They got taken over before the the General was to visit the island and they flew the flag upside down to signal something was wrong.
Ken
in this case, the whole country should be flying the flag upside down.
Player Say what!?
Just out of curiosity I read the flag code many years ago. The flag or it's facsimile is not to used as clothing. Shirts, pants, etc. It is not to be displayed horizontally yet the military do it before all football games. Against flag code to fly to draw attention to a business. A lot of insurgents on the Capital had it upside down. Guess they were warning of great destruction about to ensue.
smarty pants
sheldon cooper put his flag upside down, also as a sign of distress.
fish
i’m in middle school, and nobody had ever taught us this. I only got it right because im a book nerd 😅
Player #29793410
As a Marine Corps veteran that was easy.
slomogeo
ErsatzWizard46974, learned this from Robert Redford (movie)
Byrde Alpha Bitch
coppertonedragon, It was shown & explained briefly in the movie "Thunderheart" (1992)
constantgamer0421
coppertonedragon, I was wrong, Rod Lurie directed it, and it's also known as The Last Castle.
constantgamer0421
coppertonedragon, The Castle is a great film! Robert Redford and the late James Gandolfini (RIP), along with great supporting cast, portrayed their characters brilliantly! If I'm not mistaken, Robert Redford produced and directed it as well.
coppertonedragon
movies "In the Valley of Elah" and "The Castle" this was shown in.