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Yep. Put mine out yesterday, and will leave out until Monday evening. I checked this morning, and I only see one other flag on my block, but it is early.
I put up my stars and stripes on Memorial Day and take it down the first day of football season and then replace it with my Seattle Seahawks flag and keep it up until the last game the Hawks play. Hopefully the last game will be Super Bowl Sunday February 13.
I don't have a flag, never thought about getting one, to be honest. I served this country in uniform, I figure that's more'n enough of a display of patriotism.
My dad (Vietnam vet) absolutely refused to fly the flag. (I think that bitterness was shared by a lot of his brothers in arms at the time.) He wouldn't stop my mom from putting it out, but he himself wouldn't. He still won't.
Myself, I don't care if others do or not--so long as it's done correctly. There's one small business in the area that I swear I'm going to walk into one day and recite the regs for how to properly display the U.S. flag from what I learned during my Army stint and make 'em do it right. *That* annoys me about flag displays.
That article has a single comment on it that I will repeat here as a tribute to my missed friend and to the flag…
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With all the insufferable BS emanating from the Art World in the past fifty years or more, it's nice to read a good down-to-earth piece about a good down-to-earth artist whose work enriches his community. The artwork here of course includes the 1944 truck itself, which brings out the real meaning of the flag, with its roots in the old days of industrial might and victorious warfare, when being an American industrial worker or infantryman was something to be immensiely proud of. Rusty or not it still resonates. Even the ghosts of those old potato harvests make themselves faintly felt in this iconic memorial, reminding us of the harvesters and their humble, obscure but profoundly tragic lives—denizens of "The Other America"...
Ol' Glory is up the mast. As are both my Gadsden flags, Naval Jack version and the gold one. And 157 years ago on this date was the Battle of Gettysburg. Many a young man was denied a long and promising life there. Some were blue some were grey. In the end we all came together under the Stars and Stripes. She has flown as our rallying symbol though every trial and tribulation this nation endured. Now there are them that say she is a symbol of all that is wrong and has been wrong with our country and they turn their backs on her.
But still she flies over them that fight and die to protect these craven rodents right to to turn their backs. Not only turn their backs but wave flags that represented an evil and powerful enemy of our nation. The red hammer and sickle banner of the old Soviet Union.
I fly my American flags proudly especially on this date. Them that disparage that can take a flying leap and go to Hell!
I ran across this NY Times article, talking to people in my township about flying the flag. The old truck with a flag painted on its side is a well known roadside sight here, painted by a friend of mine who passed away right around when the pandemic started (not from COVID).
It can be pretty conservative where I am, but demographics are changing, including many more people from NYC (locally called citiots) living here full time.
I fly mine 365 days per year.
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