Disappointed with Neighbors....

[denval420]

stopped by a wwll vets headstone today, my kid said how do you know him . i said i don't i just want to tell him thank you.and thanks to all the vets out there

[theGinsue]

^^^^ That is absolutely awesome! What a fantastic thing to teach your kids too!

[gnihcraes]

I built a flagpole. Am flying the flag. I was going to take the family down to Ft. Logan, but didn't get there, maybe this next weekend we'll take the kids down there and hopefully they will understand. My immediate family has never had to serve or chosen to, are we bad people? Bad Americans? My grandparents did their part, but indirectly by supporting other services during WWII, and I have an uncle who served. I fly the flag for everyone involved.

[Jer]

Displaying the colors proudly but that's nothing new for me since I fly 24/7/365 and have it lighted at night as well on a spot light. Noticed only a few others in this neighborhood chose to do the same and it's not due to lack of money...

[theGinsue]

My immediate family has never had to serve or chosen to, are we bad people? Bad Americans? My grandparents did their part, but indirectly by supporting other services during WWII, and I have an uncle who served. I fly the flag for everyone involved.

No. serving in the military isn't for everybody, and not everybody can serve (even if they want to). This doesn't make them/you bad people/Americans.

In WWII, my moms dad was a LtCol in the Pacific (on MacArthurs staff; he continued serving through Korea), while my mom's mom was a Major - a nurse. At the same time, my dad's father was the lead electrical inspector of bombers coming out of the bomber plant in Kansas City, MO. My dad's mom also worked at that plant.

Come Vietnam, my dad was disqualified to serve due to physical problems. Instead, he went to college to learn a skill that he felt could help the country - civil engineering/metallurgy. he wasn't a bad person either.

For every person that serves, it takes many more back home to continue to make their contributions. When I retured from the USAF, my wife received a fantastic OFFICIAL "thank you" for her service to the country as well.

The whole deal is that it's a team effort.

Now, if you were out burning the flag and spitting on servicemembers, or spitting hateful, poisonous comments about those who serve or their families (like Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church), that would be a different matter entirely.

Oh, and an occasional "Thank you" to those who serve sure means a lot to them too!

[Jer]

Oh, and an occasional "Thank you" to those who serve sure means a lot to them too!

I make it a habit to do this regularly... not just on holidays. I know it's not much but I hope it's a small token that conveys that not everyone takes them or their freedom for granted.

[Zundfolge]

We flew our flag yesterday ... we used to fly it every day but more and more I'm convinced the flag is a symbol of a nation that no longer exists (or worse, will eventually become the symbol of a nation that is 180deg out of phase with what we generally think of as "America").

Maybe I need to get a big banner of the Constitution and fly that instead.

[Hoosier]

I fly 24/7/365 and have it lighted at night as well on a spot light.

Oh man totally couldn't do that here, the winds we get are incredibly intense. It'd be shredded after just one windstorm. The winds were so bad they took the glasses off my face and threw them into a two acre lot, never to be seen again. 60+ mph gusts. Maybe if I had a anemometer that triggered a pully to winch the flag down into a tube at the base when the winds exceeded some threshold.

Anyway, good on ya for doing it if you can.

H.

[Jer]

Oh man totally couldn't do that here, the winds we get are incredibly intense. It'd be shredded after just one windstorm. The winds were so bad they took the glasses off my face and threw them into a two acre lot, never to be seen again. 60+ mph gusts. Maybe if I had a anemometer that triggered a pully to winch the flag down into a tube at the base when the winds exceeded some threshold.

Anyway, good on ya for doing it if you can.

H.

We live up against the foothills and I will save the stories of horrible wind gusts (think large stainless six burner BBQ grill w/cabinet thrown halfway across the lawn at 3:00am) but I'm lucky that the way the garage extends it shelters the front porch from the brunt of the winds for the most part. It still blows but not as bad as if I mounted it out on the face of the garage or something.

[StagLefty]

New flag went up the day after 9/11 -has been replaced 3 or 4 times. When's it coming down ?-I have no idea at this time.