Flag Day 0
My three or our regular readers know that one of the things that drives me absolutely batty is improper flag etiquette.
Perversely, those who most routinely show disrespect for the American flag are also often those who most vociferously protest of their devotion to it, while being the most willing to trample the rights for which it stands.
Walter Brasch over at the Democratic Daily:
Americans use flags and flag-decorated clothes, most of them made by non-union labor in China and other overseas countries, to “prove” they are more patriotic than the next person. They have demanded that politicians wear flag lapels. They have bought bigger and bigger flags, in the mistaken believe that flying a flag and being patriotic are the same thing. But, these “patriots” have also flown their flags improperly, often hanging the blue field in the wrong corner, sometimes tacking the flag to wooden walls. They have allowed their flags to have flown in rain and snow storms, to have become tattered and faded. And when some flags become too faded or too torn, their owners just throw them out, rather than give them the proper retirement that the Flag Code requires.
