[Citizen Tom Paine]

I am not an expert on US flag etiquette, but I always understood that no flag was to fly at the same height as the US flag. The are special rules for a foreign nation's flag.

[basil]

Wrong-O. We fly the Lone Star at the same height as the Stars and Stripes. It was written into the agreement that made the Republic of Texas a US state.

[Sally'sConcerns]

The Texas State flag is to be flown at the same height as the flag of the United States. I know someone will come along and correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the reason our flag can fly at the same height is because we were The Republic of Texas or in other words we were a country in our own right. When we decided to join the United States we included the provision our flag would fly at a height equal to that of the country we were agreeing to become a part of.

Texas has 4 Presidents who served 5 separate terms before it became the 28th state to join the United States. They were:

David Burnet, our first President

Sam Houston, first term

Mirabeau B. Lamar

Sam Houston, second term

Anson Jones, our last President and the one who led us into becoming the 28th state.

Just as a side note my great, great, great Grandfather served in the Confederate Army. He was taken prisoner and sent to a Yankee prison camp in New York. To pass the time he carved a complete chess set. The dark pieces were stained with berry juice while the light pieces were kept in their natural state. We still have the set except for one pawn which has been misplaced through the years. The set is stored in an ice cream carton dated sometime in the late 1800's. My sister has the set or else I'd be able to tell you the exact date on the ice cream carton.