I have 1 on display. Its in a presentation case.
It was draped over my father's casket when he was buried. He was an Eastern European immigrant who fled Czechoslovakia during World War II as Stalin was moving west and Hitler was moving east, volunteered to fight for the US and fought in the Pacific Theater in the US Navy and was on the USS Mullaney, which was hit several times but never sunk.
That flag display is up every day, all year in the center of the bookcase so everyone can see it.
dittoWe fly one during day light and good weather.
I also have the flag that draped my father's casket in a display case...along with his WWII European Theater medals and uniform brass and patches. 84th Infantry Division, 638th Tank Destroyer Battalion. He landed at Normandy (Omaha Beach) after the initial surge then went on to fight at the Battle of Ardennes (Battle of the Bulge) in December 1944.... I wish he'd talked more about it....but always respected his silence. He's been gone 24 years this year....and I miss him daily.I have 1 on display. Its in a presentation case.
It was draped over my father's casket when he was buried. He was an Eastern European immigrant who fled Czechoslovakia during World War II as Stalin was moving west and Hitler was moving east, volunteered to fight for the US and fought in the Pacific Theater in the US Navy and was on the USS Mullaney, which was hit several times but never sunk.
That flag display is up every day, all year in the center of the bookcase so everyone can see it.
I stopped flying Old Glory when GWB started all his Patriot Act and REAL ID nonsense. I knew then that the America I grew up to love had died.
Right now, we are flying the Indiana State flag, since my Gadsden and Navy Jack have gotten pretty ratty over the years. I consider myself a citizen of the sovereign State of Indiana, and not beholden to the poser who has usurped the White House.
I really don't understand this. Old Glory doesn't represent a person, it represents this country. It represents the idea of the "great experiment". It honors the sacrifices and blood of common people who believed in the ideal. As someone who has been overseas in some nice places and not so nice places, there is nothing more stirring as seeing the American Flag upon return to this country. This country isn't perfect and certainly we have our ups and downs, but not displaying the flag, based on a principle like this is, for me, disturbing. You have that right to disparage the memory of those who have gone before, and even put it in print. You only have this right due to the Herculean efforts of great and common people who believed in this imperfect form of government and what the flag represents.
I really don't understand this. Old Glory doesn't represent a person, it represents this country. It represents the idea of the "great experiment". It honors the sacrifices and blood of common people who believed in the ideal. As someone who has been overseas in some nice places and not so nice places, there is nothing more stirring as seeing the American Flag upon return to this country. This country isn't perfect and certainly we have our ups and downs, but not displaying the flag, based on a principle like this is, for me, disturbing. You have that right to disparage the memory of those who have gone before, and even put it in print. You only have this right due to the Herculean efforts of great and common people who believed in this imperfect form of government and what the flag represents.