I kinda remember how to fold a flag..

[rwsmith]

It's been a long time. Do you start folding to the left or right. Left, I think.

A flag in Alabama has been ripped down four times in three years, so the owners put up home security cameras. When it got a video of the flag being ripped down, it next caught a couple who stopped, picked up the flag and folded it. That's a really small gesture that means a great deal.

 

[Westie1]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H7p6j3NsyQ[/ame]

Hope they nail the people taking down the flag.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I can still make hospital corners.

 

[RobertJ.]

I can still make hospital corners.

You always manage to make me laugh!

 

[JayFramer]

Hospital corners... could never get those down!

I was the "shoe aligner".

 

[ParadiseRoad]

...when I was eleven years old...I attended Lincoln Elementary School in Denver...

...we had a sixth grade color guard and we would march out every morning to the cadence of a snare drum...put the flag up...

...then march back out in the afternoon and take it down...

...suppose any eleven year olds do that now?...

...guess a fella is getting old when his elementary school is 114 years old...

 

[rwsmith]

Folding the flag....

Folding the flag the right way is an emotional experience. Seeing it done sloppily is terrible. I lost a friend who was a WWII vet and the funeral home people did the flag folding. It made me angry that a vet would get such a crummy send off.

Since my son was graduating High School, at several events the ROTC posted the flag. They were so crisp and respectful it made me feel really good.

I had to say something good to get the nasty taste of that first paragraph out of my mouth.