Photographer Fights Backlash over Baby Wrapped in US Flag Picture

[Liberal_in_LA]

Courtesy Vanessa Hicks Photography(NEW YORK) — A photographer and Navy veteran is fighting back after a photo she posted to Facebook started an online backlash.



Vanessa Hicks said she had no idea her photo would be considered controversial. The photo, from a military family’s newborn photo shoot, showed a newborn infant wrapped in an American flag held by his father, who was in his military uniform.

Hicks, a Navy veteran herself and the wife of an active-duty Navy member, said her intention was to honor the flag as well as her clients, who wanted to incorporate their military service in the photo shoot.

“This is what he was fighting for, his son wrapped in an American flag,” Hicks told ABC News.

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However, when she posted the image on her page, she started to get comments accusing her of desecrating the flag.

On one Facebook page, an unidentified poster put up her picture and wrote that they found it was “disrespectful, rude, tacky, disgusting, and against the U.S. Flag Code.”

[leftofcool]

1. More faux outrage from the right

If you can burn an American flag in this country you can damn sure wrap a baby in it!

[DisgustipatedinCA]

2. Let the flag fetishists focus on these for awhile:

[Rex]

5. IKR!?

[thecrow]

10. Arrraaaugggh!! My Eyes!!

Sometimes a barf warning is in order....

I had forgotten about Mooselini doing cheesecake in the flag.

[Turbineguy]

3. Hmmm.... let's see....

Flag =====> Symbol

Baby in flag =====> Symbol of Life.

Nah, too complicated.

[Rex]

4. I just don't see that as equivalent to this

or this;

[tanyev]

6. What? No cross taped into baby's tiny hands?

Must have been an oversight.

[DonViejo]

7. Good thing she didn't put the baby in a manger...

Damn, they're morons.

[FSogol]

8. The US Flag Code isn't a law, it is a set of recommendations on how to

treat the flag. I see violations of it on a daily basis.

[pinboy3niner]

13. I've seen violations by veterans

And don't get me started on the vet group that gave me a vet hat--made in China.

[FSogol]

16. Same here. Flag outside in rain and flag at night w/o light are the most

common "violation."

[Skittles]

9. I don't see it as offensive

no doubt the people who are offended think senseless wars and torture are just dandy

[SomethingFishy]

11. Seriously? Flag pants, shirts, underwear, socks,

flag wallets, pins, stickers, towels, blankets... Republican hypocrisy.

I for one am glad to see that flag under a baby instead of on top of a coffin.

[elias49]

12. I had a whole different take. And it wasn't good.

I looked at the picture and I thought "Jeez! Looks like 'Willing to give up first born for the US and its flag'"
I don't like it at all!

Please don't flame: it was a sincere first reaction and has NO political implications!

[uppityperson]

14. THAT is offensive? wtf?

[hatrack]

15. Yes, and I'm sure they were honking and screeching about this one too . . .

[msanthrope]

17. Well....it's not as nauseating as Anne Geddes. It's everyone's flag. nt

[betsuni]

18. The red, white and poo.

[Oilwellian]

19. Who can forget this lovely vision wrapped in the flag? (Warning!)

[Generic Other]

21. The warning could not prepare me adequately

That is so creepy gross.

[47of74]

23. Uhhhh

[angrychair]

20. on the other side

Of the spectrum...I could care less. Respect for our history and ideals is all good and well but this fascist idolatry is disturbing.

[47of74]

22. My problem is that people fetishize the flag.

My problem is that people fetishize the flag with no desire whatsoever to stand for the principles behind the flag, and in fact gleefully act contrary to the principles that the flag stands for.

My Grandpa - a WW II vet - and my dad - Vietnam - would have never even conceived of doing this with their children or grandchildren. Never. And neither of them seen the flag to be an object of worship. Respect? Yes. But an object of worship? No way.