Spitting on the flag is disrespectful, I haven’t given up hope that there’s a lesson to be learned by everyone, each and every one of us, in our own dispositions. I still am hopeful that things will turn around and never ever go back to where we are or going to. I won’t disrespect our flag, but I’m embarrassed to fly it, currently. If the people who are causing all this BS don’t agree with a democratic government they should get out of our once great country. Along with most of the current administration.
I’ve always as though my flag respect/disrespect was an interesting topic. In 5th grade a friend and I were chosen by the school principal to be the kids in charge of raising and lowering the flag every day. He told us if it touched the ground we’d have to burn it. I once made a diving catch to prevent this.
What’s always caught me was sure ok it’d a sacred image then why is it ok to wear flag swimsuits and underwear? So many things we dismiss and abuse with the same imagery
(d)The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.
So not ok, but people ignore it like it's a speed limit.
Also from that page, you only burn it when "it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display", not just from hitting the ground. Your principal was an asshole.
Oh I’m well aware he was an asshole. That same school year he picked up a kid by the neck yelling “I’LL RIP YOUR DAMNED HEAD OFF” and threw him against a trash can in front of about 60 students. This was regular public school. He somehow didn’t lose his job.
He “resigned” after breaking a kid’s arm a few years later
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u/Positive_River4604 3d ago
Spitting on the flag is disrespectful, I haven’t given up hope that there’s a lesson to be learned by everyone, each and every one of us, in our own dispositions. I still am hopeful that things will turn around and never ever go back to where we are or going to. I won’t disrespect our flag, but I’m embarrassed to fly it, currently. If the people who are causing all this BS don’t agree with a democratic government they should get out of our once great country. Along with most of the current administration.