Display the Flag on Memorial Day

johndoe

johndoe

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Some people hang from a ladder in the cold, cold winter to put up Christmas decorations, but can't find the time to display the flag on Memorial Day. Our veterans deserve better.
 

We have a flagpole in the front of the house that flies the colors 8 months of the year. On special holidays, we decorate the front lawn with small flags. I also go to the cemetery on Memorial Day for the Honor Guard, prayer, playing of taps and displaying the colors. Every grave in the veteran’s section, receives a flag.
 
I don't display the flag at all. Don't even have one. The American Flag has been co-opted and become a symbol of Jingoistic nationalism to too many people. I want no part of it.
 
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I still have trouble seeing our flag burned by protestors exercising their right to burn it. It is like burning down a children's hospital because you were once overcharged.
 
Sorry, don't have a flag or anywhere to hang it. I live in an apt. bldg. The managers here fly one though so I feel it represents us all living here.
 
Similar to Ruthanne the apartment complex where I live has a flag on display year round.

Tonight is the annual watchfire in our city. The watchfire is used to destroy damaged flags and carry on the tradition of having a fire to light the way home for soldiers that were separated from their units in battle.

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Memorial Day reminds me of the terrible waste of human life on all sides. In my view, people who died in combat are not heroes but victims of inadequate or failed leadership. (WWII may well be an exception.)
Even the Revolutionary War was largely about the almighty dollar. The founding fathers wanted freedom for themselves and fellow wealthy landowners, but deliberately, conveniently, and quite hypocritically denied the same to indigenous people, Africans and women. They wanted freedom but refused to extend it.

I recommend Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" for an eye-opening perspective. He discusses truths all Americans know deep down inside but have spent our entire lives denying because we were taught to do so.
 
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