Putting up the flag
- Thread starter Ken N Tx
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Pappy
Living the Dream
Nice video, Ken. We fly the flag proudly at our house.
Same here...
oakapple
Senior Member
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- Oxford England
We don't do that over here. Does Canada and NZ and Australia all do it too?Is it 'young' countries that tend to fly the flag more?
Grumpy Ol' Man
Senior Member
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- Kansas, U.S.
Ken, thanks for that great video!! Says so much about what we have to be thankful for as Americans.
Shalimar
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- Vancouver Island Canada
Oakapple, some Canadians fly the flag outside their houses, however most do not.
I never see the Canadian flag on private residences here except on official buildings or on the Canada Day holiday; my apartment building flies the flag then. We're proud of our country, but we don't feel to display the flag on our homes, clothing or headgear except maybe in special circumstances.
Robusta
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- upstate New York
Go to Arizona, Florida or Texas between December and April. There are more Canadian flags flying on RV,s and campsites than are flying in all of Canada!
Shalimar
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Interesting that we would fly our flags elsewhere, but not at home.
Warrigal
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- Sydney, Australia
A few people have flag poles in their front yards in OZ but most do not. It's hardly necessary to fly your own national flag when you are in your own homeland.
When I was a youth leader at an outward bound group we would have a flag ceremony at the beginning and end of each meeting and also every morning and evening when we were on camp.
I really object to people flying the flag like a piece of bunting.
It should not be flown 24/7 unless it is floodlit at night.
My father's casket was draped in the Australian flag which is another reason I don't like to see it appropriated by people who have no idea how to treat it.
I'm not happy about people who drape themselves in the flag either but it is commonly reproduced on tea towels and beach towels.
When I was a youth leader at an outward bound group we would have a flag ceremony at the beginning and end of each meeting and also every morning and evening when we were on camp.
I really object to people flying the flag like a piece of bunting.
It should not be flown 24/7 unless it is floodlit at night.
My father's casket was draped in the Australian flag which is another reason I don't like to see it appropriated by people who have no idea how to treat it.
I'm not happy about people who drape themselves in the flag either but it is commonly reproduced on tea towels and beach towels.
Shalimar
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- Vancouver Island Canada
I have never seen anyone wear the maple leaf as a head covering either.
Warrigal
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- Sydney, Australia
This is not how you fly the flag
Neither is this
Neither is this
Rocky
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- Austin, Texas
Ah, yes ... the "snowbirds".
Trust me, tho' living in Arizona for 25 years and now in Texas, I started life just on the U.S. side of the border across from Winnipeg, Manitoba. I do remember, vividly!, snowdrifts up to a second-story window and blizzards so heavy folks got lost and died, etc. If I were still living in that area, I'd be a winter-time "snowbird", too!
Ah, yes ... the "snowbirds".
Trust me, tho' living in Arizona for 25 years and now in Texas, I started life just on the U.S. side of the border across from Winnipeg, Manitoba. I do remember, vividly!, snowdrifts up to a second-story window and blizzards so heavy folks got lost and died, etc. If I were still living in that area, I'd be a winter-time "snowbird", too!
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As a new member to this site, I hate the idea of being so controversial - but I feel I must...
The only time I have been able to fly my country's flag, the Union Jack, was in Florida as a snowbird for 16 years. Every winter, it fluttered freely alongside of the Stars and Stripes and the Maple Leafs. There were also a group of houses that flew the French Canadian flags. We were all so proud of those flags, and we respected each others.
At the American shows, games and meetings, when everybody stood up and placed their hands on their hearts as they took the Oath of Allegiance or listened to the Star Spangled Banner, I stood with them out of respect.
Alas, where I now live, I dare not fly the flag - it would be ripped down within minutes. I cannot remember the last time I stood to attention for God Save the Queen since leaving the Royal Air Force.
In the past twenty or thirty years, patriotism and national pride has gone down the pan in the UK. Only the 'oldies' remember the stirrings in our hearts when we sang 'Jerusalem'.
... A curse on PC......
The only time I have been able to fly my country's flag, the Union Jack, was in Florida as a snowbird for 16 years. Every winter, it fluttered freely alongside of the Stars and Stripes and the Maple Leafs. There were also a group of houses that flew the French Canadian flags. We were all so proud of those flags, and we respected each others.
At the American shows, games and meetings, when everybody stood up and placed their hands on their hearts as they took the Oath of Allegiance or listened to the Star Spangled Banner, I stood with them out of respect.
Alas, where I now live, I dare not fly the flag - it would be ripped down within minutes. I cannot remember the last time I stood to attention for God Save the Queen since leaving the Royal Air Force.
In the past twenty or thirty years, patriotism and national pride has gone down the pan in the UK. Only the 'oldies' remember the stirrings in our hearts when we sang 'Jerusalem'.
... A curse on PC......
Is it because you live in Wales that you say the Union Jack would be ripped down if you flew it???? because here in England I know many people that fly the Union Flag from a flagpole in their gardens.
Sorry but I strongly disagree with you as far as National pride and patriotism has gone down the pan, it is still all around me and you are wrong about Jerusalem only stirring the oldies hearts.
The video is three years old and as you should know the Proms attract both young and old in the audience.
You have answered your own question in the first sentence, Bee.....
I practically lived for the Halle Orchestra when I lived in Manchester, and have spent many years at the Proms. That was why I mentioned Jerusalem...
When schoolchildren can no longer wear a cross because it would offend other pupils, when Christmas decorations are considered offensive to other people, when political correctness is pushed down our throats at every opportunity, when we no longer have the rights of self expression that we once had, then we are losing our national identity and pride. I am British, I am a monarchist, and I am proud. I am not a European, I am British.
I dare not say more.
I practically lived for the Halle Orchestra when I lived in Manchester, and have spent many years at the Proms. That was why I mentioned Jerusalem...
When schoolchildren can no longer wear a cross because it would offend other pupils, when Christmas decorations are considered offensive to other people, when political correctness is pushed down our throats at every opportunity, when we no longer have the rights of self expression that we once had, then we are losing our national identity and pride. I am British, I am a monarchist, and I am proud. I am not a European, I am British.
I dare not say more.
AZ Jim
R.I.P. With Us In Spirit Only
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Official flag protocol forbids wearing the flag or using it as anything but it's intended use. I know now you see it all the time because people don't think about how disgraceful it is. You'll never see it here at my home, but if you walk my street you will see many proudly flying old glory.
Pappy
Living the Dream
Lon
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In the years that I spent dividing the year between California and New Zealand I would hang the American Flag on my New Zealand home and the Kiwi flag on my California home.