The Citizens Flag Alliance (CFA) is an

American American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, pe ...

organization advocating in favor of the

Flag Burning Amendment The Flag Desecration Amendment (often referred to as the Flag-Burning Amendment) is a proposed addition to the Constitution of the United States that would allow the U.S. Congress to prohibit by statute and provide punishment for the physical "d ...

project. CFA was founded in 1989 by the

American Legion The American Legion, commonly known as the Legion, is a non-profit organization of U.S. war War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents, and militi ...

and originally called the Citizens' Flag Honor Guard.

Member organizations

Over 140 organizations "representing millions of Americans" have joined the Alliance since it was incorporated in June 1994. Notable member organizations include: * AMVETS (American Veterans) *

Air Force Association The Air & Space Forces Association (AFA) is an independent, 501(c)(3) non-profit, professional military association for the United States Air Force and United States Space Force. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, its declared mission is " ...

Air Force Sergeants Association The Air Force Sergeants Association (AFSA) is a non-profit organization representing the professional and personal interests of nearly 111,000 active, retired and veteran total enlisted members of the United States Air Force and their families. ...

* American GI Forum of the U.S. *

American Legion Auxiliary The American Legion Auxiliary (ALA) is a separate entity from the American Legion that shares the same values. Composed of spouses, mothers, daughters, granddaughters, and sisters of American war veterans. Founded in 1919, the ALA is dedicated to ...

American War Mothers The American War Mothers was founded in 1917 and given a Congressional charter on February 24, 1925. It is a perpetual patriotic, 501(c) 4 non-profit, non-political, non-sectarian, non-partisan organization whose members are mothers of children wh ...

* Ancient Order of Hibernians *

Association of the U.S. Army The Association of the United States Army (AUSA) is a private, non-profit organization that serves as the professional association of the United States Army. Founded in 1950, it has 121 chapters worldwide. Membership is open to everyone, not ju ...

* Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks *

Catholic War Veterans Catholic War Veterans (officially called the Catholic War Veterans of the United States of America) is a national service organization of baptized Catholics that have served or are currently serving in the United States Armed Forces. Founded in 1 ...

Daughters of the American Colonists The National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (NSDAC) is an organization of female descendants of American colonials. Its mission is education on the Colonial history of the United States. Membership Membership in NSDAC is open to fem ...

* Drum Corps Associates * Family Research Council * Fleet Reserve Association *

Forty and Eight veterans organization ''La Société des 40 Hommes et 8 Chevaux'' ( en, "The Society of 40 Men and 8 Horses"), commonly known as the Forty and Eight, is a nonprofit organization of U.S. veterans headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is made up of state, U.S. ...

* Gold Star Wives of America, Inc. * Grand Aerie, Fraternal Order of Eagles * Grand Lodge Fraternal Order of Police * Great Council of Texas, Order of Red Men *

Hungarian Reformed Federation of America The Hungarian Reformed Federation of America (HRFA) was a fraternal organization chartered by congress in 1907. Prior to 2011, the HRFA main office was located in the Kossuth House located at 2001 Massachusetts Avenue in Washington, D.C. In that yea ...

* Jewish War Veterans of the USA * Just Marketing, Inc. * Knights of Columbus * MBNA America *

Marine Corps League The Marine Corps League is the only congressionally chartered United States Marine Corps-related veterans organization in the United States. Its congressional charter was approved by the 75th U.S. Congress and signed by President Franklin D. Roo ...

* Military Officers Association of Indianapolis, MOAA (formally The Retired Officers Association of Indianapolis, TROA) * Military Order of the Purple Heart of the U.S.A. * The Military Order of the Foreign Wars *

Moose International The Loyal Order of Moose is a fraternal and service organization founded in 1888 and headquartered in Mooseheart, Illinois. Moose International supports the operation of Mooseheart Child City & School, a community for children and teen ...

* National Alliance of Families for the Return of America's Missing Servicemen * National Center for Public Policy Research *

National Defense Committee The International Labor Defense (ILD) (1925–1947) was a legal advocacy organization established in 1925 in the United States as the American section of the Communist International, Comintern's International Red Aid network. The ILD defended Sacco ...

* National Federation of State High School Associations * National FFA (Future Farmers of America) * National Grange *

National Guard Association of the United States The National Guard Association of the United States was founded in 1878 as a congressional lobbying organization for National Guard issues. A member of the Military Coalition, NGAUS lobbies on behalf of 45,000 officers who comprise the membership ...

* National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in SE Asia * National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution * National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution *

Native Daughters of the Golden West Native Daughters of the Golden West is an American non-profit organization for women born in California. The organization focuses on the care and preservation of California history. It is the sister organization to the Native Sons of the Golden We ...

* Native Sons of the Golden West *

Naval Enlisted Reserve Association Naval Enlisted Reserve Association (NERA) is a military advocacy group in the United States, who specifically address the agenda of sea-service reservists. Their stated mission is to protect the rights and benefits of enlisted sea-service reserv ...

(NERA) * Navy League of the United States *

Polish American Congress The Polish American Congress (PAC) is an American umbrella organization of Polish-Americans and Polish-American organizations. Its membership has fraternal, educational, veterans, religious, cultural, social, business, political organizations, and i ...

Polish Falcons of America The Polish Falcons of America ( pl, Sokoły Polskie Ameryki) is a nonprofit fraternal benefit society, with a strong emphasis on physical fitness. History The "falcon" movement originated after the suppression of the Polish uprising of 1863. It ...

* Polish Home Army * Polish Legion of American Veterans, U.S.A. * Polish Legion of American Veterans Ladies Auxiliary * Polish National Alliance * Polish Roman Catholic Union of North America *

Polish Women's Alliance The Polish Women's Alliance of America ( pol. ''Związek Polek w Ameryce'') is a fraternal benefit society that was founded on May 22, 1898 in Chicago, Illinois. The Polish Women's Alliance was founded by Stefania Chmielinska, a Polish immigrant wh ...

* Ruritan National *

Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction in the United States often omits the ''and'', while the English Constitution in the United Kingdom omits the ''Scottish''), commonly known as simply the Sco ...

- Northern Masonic Jurisdiction *

Supreme Council, Scottish Rite (Southern Jurisdiction, USA) The Supreme Council, Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, Southern Jurisdiction, USA (commonly known as the Mother Supreme Council of the World) was the first Supreme Council of Scottish Rite Freemasonry. It claims that all other Supreme Councils ...

* Sons of Confederate Veterans *

Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW) is an American congressionally chartered fraternal organization that carries out activities to preserve the history and legacy of the United States Armed Forces veterans who fought during the Civil ...

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe The Standing Rock Reservation ( lkt, Íŋyaŋ Woslál Háŋ) lies across the border between North and South Dakota in the United States, and is inhabited by ethnic " Hunkpapa and Sihasapa bands of Lakota Oyate and the Ihunktuwona and Pabaks ...

* The General Society, Sons of the Revolution * Reserve Officers Association of the United States *

Women's Army Corps Veterans' Association A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...

* Women's Overseas Service League * Woodmen of the World

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