"DougW" <post.replies@invalid.address> wrote in message
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> aliasme wrote:
> a couple of months ago, i decided to put a 3 x 5 flag on my truck
somehow.
> bought me a pole (standard mop/broom wooden handle and put it on
with
> some minor home workings. then someone BROKE the flag pole off and
left
> it sitting in my pickup bed. from the looks of it, the hit it with
something blunt,
> maybe another pole or a bat. at about 9 am in the morning. i was
LIVID! no one
> saw a thing either. i was wondering what the penalty for beating
them bloody
> with that flag would have been. now it is back up on a 1 inch
galvanized steel
> rod. much better. f*ckers
>
>
> Not that what your doing isn't appreciated or patriotic, but there
are rules for
> the flying of the American flag. Nothing is sadder than a nice flag
being beaten
> to death at road speed. Parades notwithstanding, flags belong on
flag poles.
> And flags flown at night must be lighted.
>
> http://www.ushistory.org/betsy/flagetiq.html
>
I would argue this manner of display is acceptable. Especially
according to these rules. This is similiar to the smaller colors/flags
displayed on US embassy vehicles. The size of these flags is obviously
different but the problem of "death at road speed" is the same.

Taken from section 7.
b. The flag should not be draped over the hood, top, sides, or back of
a vehicle or of a railroad train or a boat. When the flag is displayed
on a motorcar, the staff shall be fixed firmly to the chassis or
clamped to the right fender.