Flag Of The United States Of America

Cemetery Flags Project

Greenwood Cemetery, in the heart of Birmingham, has more than 90 marked graves of veterans from the Revolution to the present time. Some of the graves are marked by bronze or granite government markers and some have service designations on the tombstones. Yet others show service medallions on stakes indicating the war in which they fought. Piety Hill Chapter volunteers proudly set small flags of the United States of America on each veteran’s grave for Memorial Day and Armed Forces Day.

Unaccompanied Veteran Memorial Service September 2024
Julie Schmitz, Debbie Harrington, Kathy Englehart and Dorinda McCourt attended the
Unaccompanied Veteran Memorial Service at the Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, MI.

Piety Hill Day of Service Greenwood Cemetery May 2024
Piety Hill Chapter members decorated 228 veteran's graves
with American flags in the Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham.
Photo courtesy of Audrey Lambert

Piety Hill Day of Service Greenwood Cemetery May 2023
Piety Hill Chapter members decorated 200 veteran's graves
with American flags in the Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham.
Photo courtesy of Audrey Lambert

Piety Hill Day of Service Greenwood Cemetery May 2022
Piety Hill Chapter members decorated 200 veteran's graves
with American flags in the Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham.
Photo courtesy of Audrey Lambert

Piety Hill Day of Service Greenwood Cemetery 2021
Piety Hill Chapter members decorated 185 veteran's graves
with American flags in the Greenwood Cemetery, Birmingham.
Photo courtesy of Doug Ashley

Piety Hill Day of Service Greenwood Cemetery 2021

Piety Hill Day of Service Greenwood Cemetery 2020
Members validated the list of Veterans and their
Section/Lot/Space to be used at our Memorial Day flag placing 2021.

Piety Hill Members at Greenwood Cemetery 2020
Photo courtesy of Doug Ashley

Piety Hill Members at Greenwood Cemetery 2019
Photo courtesy of Doug Ashley

Piety Hill Members at Greenwood Cemetery 2018
Photo courtesy of Audrey Lambert

Piety Hill Members at Greenwood Cemetery 2017
First row: Suzanne Medici, Holly Heiss, Joan Norton, Regent Jan Stafford, Audrey Lambert.
Second row: Janet Ashley, Lynda Bendelow-Ruark, Barbara Suhay, Mary Pew,
Julie Schmitz, Marcia Vetrone, Virginia Bennett, Martha Stahl.
Photo courtesy of Doug Ashley

Piety Hill Members at Greenwood Cemetery 2016
Photo courtesy of Doug Ashley

Piety Hill Members at Greenwood Cemetery 2016
Photo courtesy of Doug Ashley

Piety Hill Members at Greenwood Cemetery 2015
Photo courtesy of Audrey Lambert

We encourage you to proudly fly your flag every day
and particularly on the following days:

Flag Display Rules and Etiquette

1. The Flag is always hoisted briskly and lowered ceremoniously.
2. The flag is never allowed to touch the ground or the floor.
3. When hung over a sidewalk on a rope extending from a building to a pole, the union stars are always away from the building.
4. When vertically hung over the center of the street, the flag always has the union stars to the north in an east/west street, and to the east in a north/south street.
5. The Flag of the United States of America should be at the center and at the highest point of the group when a number of flags of states or localities or pennants of societies are grouped and displayed from staffs.
6. The flag should never be festooned, drawn back nor up in folds, but always allowed to fall free.
7. The flag should be displayed at half-staff until noon on Memorial Day then raised to the top of the staff.
8. Never fly the flag upside down except as a signal of distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.
9. The flag is never flown in inclement weather except when using an all-weather flag.
10. The flag can be flown every day from sunrise to sunset and at night if illuminated properly.

(The above information on the flag conforms to the current Federal flag code.)