Flying Ragged US Flags

Big pet peeve of mine. I’ve even gone so far as to take them down myself and bring them to the owner with a polite request to no fly it torn or ripped.

If you don’t know how to dispose of, most Ace Hardwares will collect them and turn over to Boy Scouts to dispose of properly

Commies

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Nice try, Pol Pot

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NO EXCUSES

Bought one from Lowe’s in 2019 For the fourth. By 2021 inauguration it was looking tattered. Let it fly tattered for a year as a representation of the state of the union. Then took it down for the rest of the term. Will be getting a new one soon.

Funny how you never see one in a liberal’s yard.

Disgraceful

Adhere to proper flag protocol or don’t fly one

“Naw, it’ll do for our little town”

I see businesses all the time flying tattered flags and it drives me nuts. If you are going to make a show of how patriotic your business is at least make sure you fly a decent looking flag.

I’ve had to contact three organizations— a National Guard Armory, a US Courthouse, and a city’s Veterans Memorial— to tell them that they were flying tattered and ripped flags that were in desperate need of replacement.

Each time, I noticed the ragged flags and let it go for days before I contacted them, thinking that surely one person among their group would notice it. Nope. Pathetic. To their credit, they replaced the flags immediately after I contacted them.

Back in the late 80s when the Supreme Court issued its flag burning decision, many folks were in an uproar. One news article of the era was a picture in The Advocate of a ripped and faded flag hanging from a single grommet. The caption was something like: “This is the flag that flies above the West Baton Rouge Parish courthouse, where the police jury voted unanimously yesterday to send a resolution to Congress in support of a constitutional amendment to allow punishment for flag desecration."