Posted by Mark - IN. on October 13, 2015 at 20:05:35 from (98.206.242.17):
In Reply to: Respect for the Flag posted by JDNewbie on October 12, 2015 at 18:40:41:
Back in the late '80's or early '90's, there was a "display of art" at the Chicago Art Museum that consisted of the American flag lying on the floor, and the book for people to sign as guests was laid out in such a way that the only way that someone could sign it required standing on the flag to do so. It raised quite an issue, and as I recall was taken to court to have it removed, but I think that the court ruled that it was "...just a symbol, not...", and it stayed there, angering many folks. I lived about 40 or 50 miles southwest of Chicago in a small blue collar working town named Romeoville, where the town board came up with a rule that made the local papers that basically said that it would be illegal to beat anyone up that disrespected the American flag like that, and if caught beating someone up that did so would result in a $1.00 fine. The ACLU and some others came after my town saying that the law encouraged vigilantism. Personally, we viewed the $1.00 fine as an entrance fee to cheap entertainment.
In about 1970 or 1971 when I was a little kid in the fifth grade in South Bend, IN. my grade school class took a field trip to the local newspaper, the South Bend Tribune where each of us kids was given a complimentary paper which we took back to school and read as a class. There were three stories in it that I will never forget. One, it was the last curtain for the Beatles, a court ruled that they had officially broken up, or disbanded. Two, there was a picture and story about my Uncle Russ, whom worked for the paper, died of a heart attack in the emergency room, was pronounced dead, came back to life and told his out of body story of looking down at the medical staff working on him, bringing him back to life. And three, there was a picture and story of a young man that had been arrested for having an American flag patch sewn onto the bottom of his bell bottom pants leg, by his shoe because it was a sign of disrespect of our American flag.
These days, I see the flag outside on display, day and night, lit up, in the dark, rain or shine, snow, all weather conditions and in all conditions of repair and disrepair. When I was stationed at Ft. Gordon, GA, my HDQTRS Company was the Company that raised and lowered the base flag at the base headquarters, and in doing so, it had better never ever touch the ground, and to my knowledge, with MPs present and armed with Colt .45 automatics, it never ever did...we were too scared to let it.
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