We moved here around 8 or 9 years ago and took down the tattered flag in the flag holder then. We figured it was about time we replaced it.
We moved here around 8 or 9 years ago and took down the tattered flag in the flag holder then. We figured it was about time we replaced it.
Congratulations!
May I ask if you retired the old flag properly?
If you mean according to flag code, no. But there was like half a flag there. It think the wind retired it a long time ago. It was a rag.
True, understood.
As far as I’m aware, the proper way is to burn the old flag. It should never touch the ground though.
I’m not an expert nor a nitpicker on this matter though, but congrats on the new flag!
It is just a piece of cloth, who cares/how does it matter?
Exactly. It doesn’t.
Just figured I’d ask regardless, as I was criticized for putting my late father’s flag on the ground, even though it was still sealed in the plastic.
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I wouldn’t be concerned about criticism from petty nationalists. It’s entirely pointless and unhealthy for your attention span.
Exactly. The flag code in particular is a piece of weird fetishistic civic religion, and the principles supposedly underlying it are more honored in the breach than the observance. Maybe if you’re actively employed by the US Government you should follow it, but otherwise it’s just a boogeyman bit of thoughtless orthopraxy.
Tradition, and a harmless one at that.
Dad was a Torpedo Man, 3rd Class, in the Pacific. He taught me that. Why should I not pass that down to my kids?
And besides, knowing the Flag Code allows you to bag on all the assholes breaking it.
Not really a harmless one, it is a typical outgrowth of the American hypernationalism and an utterly jingoist tradition in the sense that it glorifies the military that really doesn’t deserve any glorification anymore.
It’s a worthless piece of cloth. It doesn’t matter.
-signed: veteran.