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Originally Posted by Gman
Your avatar is very offensive. Please consider changing it.
You know I like my coffee sweet in the morning
and I'm crazy about my tea at night
I'm a combat veteran, I know how to handle the flag. I feel our Constitutional Republic, which is represented by that flag is in dire peril.
I choose to fly it upside down as a sign of distress - the other option would be to fly it in a wheft. I don't see why that offends you so?
Care to explain?
As a means to educate:
Upside down flag is distress signal
MARGA KELLOGG
Staff Writer OCEANSIDE ---- In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, D.C., Vietnam veteran Dana Rickard began flying his flag upside down, a move which he said caused him to be harassed by some people.
Rickard said flying the flag upside down is a standard military distress signal and was never intended to be disrepectful.
"It means we need some help here. That's American heritage, it has nothing to do with saying anything bad about the flag," said Rickard, an Oceanside resident.
The United States Flag Code supports Richard's statement.
The code formalizes and unifies the traditional ways in which we give respect to the flag and includes the following:
The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing.
It is flown upside down only as a distress signal.
The flag should not be used as a drapery, or for covering a speakers desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general. Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes. The blue stripe of the bunting should be on the top.
The flag should never be used for any advertising purpose. It should not be embroidered, printed or otherwise impressed on such articles as cushions, handkerchiefs, napkins, boxes, or anything intended to be discarded after temporary use. Advertising signs should not be attached to the staff or halyard.
The flag should not be used as part of a costume or athletic uniform, except that a flag patch may be used on the uniform of military personnel, fireman, policeman and members of patriotic organizations.
The flag should never have placed on it, or attached to it, any mark, insignia, letter, word, number, figure, or drawing of any kind.
The flag should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.
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And I agree with him.
Are you in combat and in distress????
Are the illegall imigrants that do the same damn thing, In combat for this country or distress???
"The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing. It is flown upside down only as a distress signal."
I still stand by my PM!
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." (Edmund Burke 1784)
As a Patriot I am in distress. I feel that we are in extreme danger - to both our lives and property.
Hey it's your forum. Do as you will. I cannot stop you. But I think you're making a mistake.
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