Do the 13 folds of the American flag each have a specific meaning?

There are various meanings attributed to the folds and I have seen various versions of these kinds of meanings. The Flag Code gives no information on flag folding whatsoever. I know of no official designation given to any meanings of the folds. However that is not to say that the meanings are fictional. It only means they are not official. They are not facts because they are not codified in law as is the number of stars and stripes. Those are specifications that are facts which can be looked up. It is a fact that the flag has 13 stripes because Congress said so in 1775 when it passed the resolution creating the flag. So, no, the things written above are not facts. But they are not fictional as long as anyone chooses to find meaning in them. It would be fiction to describe them as facts. You will see in the Air Force publication quoted below that various organizations have given various meanings to the folds. None of them are wrong but none of them are facts. They are a kind of poetry, they are symbolism. We are Americans and it is our birth right to assign meaning to symbols however we see fit. USAF HONOR GUARD BASIC PROTOCOL, HONORS, AND CEREMONIES L5AZO8G000-001 And L5AZK8G000-002 has the most detailed description on how to fold the flag that I have ever seen. It is pages long and very technical. It is the training manual for the Air Force funeral detail. It assigns no meaning to the folds. Air Force publication AIR FORCE INSTRUCTION 34-1201 4 OCTOBER 2006 discusses the handling and display of the flag in every imaginable detail. Here is what it says about the folds having meaning: "2.15. According to Title 4, United States Code, there is no specific meaning assigned to the folds of the flag. Although there are flag folding ceremony options offered by various national interest groups, these are not official Air Force ceremonies. The Air Force developed a script which provides an historical perspective on the flag. There are no ceremonies in the Air Force requiring a script to be read when the flag is folded. However, when a flag folding ceremony is desired and conducted by the honor guard, this script is the only one which may be used. See Attachment 4 for this script and a diagram depicting the proper method for folding the flag of the United States." The script is a very nice patriotic narrative about the meaning and importance of the flag in general but it attaches no meaning to the folds. This explanation does not mean that some organization or maybe one of the other services may assign meaning to the folds. I have not looked at the regulations of the other services in this regard. If an organization assigns meanings to each fold, then it is a fact for that organization. There is no universal meaning to the folds which is factual. By definition, it is a universal fact that the stars are white and the field is blue. The folds have no such definition. Because we are Americans, we are free to assign meanings to the folds.