(a) Designation.— The composition consisting of the words and music known as the Star-Spangled Banner is the national anthem.

 

(b) Conduct During Playing.— During a rendition of the national anthem—

(1) when the flag is displayed—

(A) individuals in uniform should give the military salute at the first note of the anthem and maintain that position until the last note;

 

(B) members of the Armed Forces and veterans who are present but not in uniform may render the military salute in the manner provided for individuals in uniform; and

 

© all other persons present should face the flag and stand at attention with their right hand over the heart, and men not in uniform, if applicable, should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart; and

 

(2) when the flag is not displayed, all present should face toward the music and act in the same manner they would if the flag were displayed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Not everyday I see a law with the word "should" in it.

Not everyday I see a law with the word "should" in it.

 

Correct. That's the flag code of how it SHOULD be handled. It's now law.

Those are just guidelines.

Those are just guidelines.

 

look it up.. its law

This is something you learn in basic training when you join the military. You can pick the vets out in the stands. They are the ones with their hands over their hearts or they salute. I personally along with my family put my hand over my heart.

"Prayer is like Chronic Gambling, you never talk about your losses."

I love this country more than life itself. We are currently at war and have men and women placing their lives on the line. The only thing we have is that flag and we need to respect it. How hard is it to put your right hand over your heart, take your hat off and keep your mouth shut for 2 minutes. I just don't get it.

This is something you learn in basic training when you join the military. You can pick the vets out in the stands. They are the ones with their hands over their hearts or they salute. I personally along with my family put my hand over my heart.

 

I do, too, but it's now law.

look it up.. its law

 

So you're saying I can be arrested for not following?

I do, too, but it's now law.

 

Correct it is now law.

look it up.. its law

 

Correct it is now law.

 

You can understand our confusion on your point.

So you're saying I can be arrested for not following?

 

Arrested: You don't even see the cops stop talking to each other during it. People just don't care. It does not effect them. I lost blood for this country and I guess I feel different.

You can understand our confusion on your point.

 

I do.

Correct it is now law.

 

Um, what?

 

Slate wrote about Obama breaking "the law" ... in 2007.

Did Barack Obama really need to put his hand on his heart during the national anthem?

 

Did something just go through Congress and Obama's office that failed to get picked up by any national news source?:

 

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22national+anthem%22+law&tbs=qdr:y,sbd:1&tbm=nws

 

Pretty sure what you're talking about has not been "enacted into positive law." (see below)

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Code

"Legal status

The authority for the material in the United States Code comes from its enactment through the legislative process and not from its presentation in the Code. For example, the United States Code omitted 12 U.S.C. § 92 for decades, apparently because it was thought to have been repealed. In its 1993 ruling in U.S. National Bank of Oregon v. Independent Insurance Agents of America, the Supreme Court ruled that §92 was still valid law.[11]

By law, those titles of the United States Code that have not been enacted into positive law are "prima facie evidence"[12] of the law in effect. The United States Statutes at Large remains the ultimate authority. If a dispute arises as to the accuracy or completeness of the codification of an unenacted title, the courts will turn to the language in the United States Statutes at Large. In case of a conflict between the text of the Statutes at Large and the text of a provision of the United States Code that has not been enacted as positive law, the text of the Statutes at Large takes precedence.

In contrast, if Congress enacts a particular title (or other component) of the Code into positive law, the enactment repeals all of the previous Acts of Congress from which that title of the Code derives; in their place, Congress gives the title of the Code itself the force of law. This process makes that title of the United States Code "legal evidence"[13] of the law in force. Where a title has been enacted into positive law, a court may neither permit nor require proof of the underlying original Acts of Congress.[14]

The distinction between enacted and unenacted titles is largely academic because the Code is nearly always accurate. The United States Code is routinely cited by the Supreme Court and other federal courts without mentioning this theoretical caveat. On a day-to-day basis, very few lawyers cross-reference the Code to the Statutes at Large. Attempting to capitalize on the possibility that the text of the United States Code can differ from the United States Statutes at Large, Bancroft-Whitney for many years published a series of volumes known as United States Code Service (USCS), which used the actual text of the United States Statutes at Large."

 

Maybe I missed it/glanced over it/can't find it/am horrible at searching, but I did not see the national anthem law in a search of "he United States Statutes at Large".

 

If that is INDEED the case (and it is NOT included in the statutes), then the national anthem law, while on the books in Code, has not been "enacted into positive law" (meaning repercussions for violators).