Correctly Display the U.S. Flag.

(An excerpt from WingWorld magazine)

With Memorial Day, parades, flag Day and American pride, I thought it important to review the basics of how to correctly display the United States flag on your motorcycle.

The easiest rule of thumb to remember why you fly the U.S. Flag on your bike is that it should be on your right-hand side as you sit facing forward on your bike.  In other words, it should be over your right shoulder.  So just think of the Flag as always being your "right-hand man."

This is called your "marching right," and here's why;  Picture yourself marching, or riding, as a participant in a parade.  You are moving forward and displaying The Colors to the viewers ahead.  To those viewers ahead, the flag should appear to be coming at them to their left (the viewer's left) which, of course, means that you are displaying it on your "marching right."

The language behind this general rule, which comes from the "Federal Flag Code, Section 3", can seem a bit confusing.  "The flag, when carried in a procession with another flag or flags, should be either on the marching right; that is, the flag's own right, or, if there is a line of other flags, in front of the center of that line.:

The flag's own right?  How about we just concentrate on the "marching right" for now and leave that other phraseology for another day?