I am guilty as I have no flag pole at home. I DO want one - and hope to install one some day.

However, we DID fly Old Glory (and the NV flag) at our club Independence Day celebration at our private range.

With only a day and a half notice, we still had about 50 members & guests attend. Plenty of rifle and handgun shooting - and, of course, plenty eating & socializing!

Saw lots of American flags out, but unfortunately except fot the one carried by the color guard in the parade, and one flying on a pole mounted on the back of a pickup carrying a politician in the parade, the remainder were on folding chairs, chair bags, made into shirts, shorts, etc.

To me a disturbing trend?

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Originally posted by billhud:
I've got bigger fish to fry.

BTW, I do teach by example. I do NOT fly the flag for those very reasons I stated I didn't.

Bill, I agree there is a proper way to present Old Glory. But as we know, a lot of folks don't realize it like we do. I feel that presenting our nations flag in a fairly respectful manner is fine and shows patriotism. Not flying the flag because it's too much of a hastle is pretty lame IMO. Learn and help others learn.

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Originally posted by Mickey D:
Not flying the flag because it's too much of a hastle is pretty lame IMO.

Matters not if you think it lame that I do not fly the flag for the reasons I don't. I've done, and still do, plenty in service under that flag to demonstrate my respect for it and all that it stands for. In this case, it's the opinion and heart of the man in the mirror that counts for me.

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Originally posted by billhud:

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Originally posted by Mickey D:
Not flying the flag because it's too much of a hastle is pretty lame IMO.

Matters not if you think it lame that I do not fly the flag for the reasons I don't. I've done, and still do, plenty in service under that flag to demonstrate my respect for it and all that it stands for.

Bill, I appreciate everyone who has served our country and continues to.
You need to stop riding the coat tails of Uncle Sam and bragging about your accomplishments in the service. It's getting old.
Or is it all about you Billhud?

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Originally posted by Mickey D:
Bill, I appreciate everyone who has served our country and continues to.
You need to stop riding the coat tails of Uncle Sam and bragging about your accomplishments in the service. It's getting old.
Or is it all about you Billhud?

Feel free to ignore my posts.

I'll not fly the flag. I do not want to, and I feel no need to. If my neighbors notice no flag on my porch or in my yard and think it lame, disrespectful, or ignorant of what the flag means/stands for, I truly don't care. I know better, and I'll let them remain blissfully ignorant. That's just the way it is. I really don't care if anyone thinks it's lame or not.

No shortage of flags where I live in cedar city, utah. All the houses at least on my street have a small hole in front of every house bored on the curb. We pay the boy scouts $25 a year and every holliday plus, you wake up in the morning and a flag is flying!

feralmerril: That's very neat! I wish we had Boy Scouts to that here! I bet it's spectacular to wake up to on a holiday morning!

I fly the Virginia flag. The present Constitution creating the current government was instituted thirteen years later than the signing of the Decl. of Independence.

Speaking of which, here's a trick question: who was the first president of the United States of America? If you look at the Decl. of Independence, it clearly makes reference to the United States of America, but it's not the same one we've got now. That was the U.S. under the Articles of Confederation, run by the Continental Congress. Now, the President of the Congress was the President of the United States of America at that time, as I said, thirteen years before the present government was instituted. Answer: John Hanson of Maryland. More details, as well as a list of the other pre-Washingtonian presidents:

http://www.marshallhall.org/hanson.html

Mine is lighted and flies 24/7 unless the Kansas wind gets too much. After 911 I went out and got a pole. I replace the flag about 3 times a year.

-Don

Seven flags displayed by neighbors on my street. All remained out overnight last night. Not one was lit.

I attended an out-of-state 4th of July parade. There was a group of WWII, Korea and Vietnam vets, I think from the same VFW post marching with a large (almost curb to curb) flag displayed flat with the members carrying it by the edges. I wasn't about to tell them they were displaying the flag "wrong".

It has rained off and on all weekend here in Central NJ, don't think too many families have storm flags. Also I agree that the national mood is rather subdued this Independence Day weekend. So i won't hold it against anybody.

I find it sad that so many folks have such a short attention span... and are so quick to jump on any given bandwagon.

Remember the weeks after 9/11? Driving down the road, a huge number of vehicles had flags fluttering or glued all over their cars. Many of these folks had never flown the flag before and haven't since... They've moved off to their next cause like the sheep that they are.

Now there's nary a flag to be found and their cars are covered with "Save Tibet" or "Our Mother Earth" stickers.

Great thread you guys, thanks or letting us see your families, homes and neighborhoods, ranges too.

You can't be, I can't be, we all can't be too proud and display and show off our homes!

Bravo to all & thank you~~!!

BULLY! (Teddy R.)

Or, as my (mine) grandmother (grandmudder) would (vood) say
Sank you darlinks!

1917 Ellis Island arrival from Hungary.

God bless America.