You need to read alittle more clearly,Originally Posted by Total_Blender
People still aren't getting it that this is not about Col. Barfoot's right to display the flag. Reading comprehension is a skill most of us learn in grades 2-5... why does it escape some people so badly.
When the term "display properly" is used that doesn't mean hang the flag off your porch from some tac nailed rack the HOA thinks is pretty. Properly displaying the colors regards the correct manner in which the national ensign (flag) is flown. The national ensign (flag) does not dip or lower on a proper display, only organizational colors dip/lower when displayed along side the national ensign (flag).
Military bases, national cemetaries, memorials, all have flag POLES in the ground, not pretty little banner holders nailed to a rotting porch.
That must not have been covered in your school since it clearly escaped you multiple times. The issue wasn't about having a flag, correct and it wasn't because Barfoot just wanted to have a pole in his yard, he wanted to display the national ensign properly because back in his day before any of us were born that is how things were done in this country. People would have been shot in the face for burning a flag or something of that manner back then. Now half the youth in this country can't even say the pledge let alone remember who the 13th president was or who signed the declaration of independance. If you ask them who created MySpace or Twitter they could probably tell you.
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