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In reply to the discussion: RETIRED MAJOR GENERAL PAUL D. EATON STATEMENT ON DONALD TRUMP'S TWEET ON FLAG BURNING [View all]tclambert
(11,084 posts)29. From the Flag Code (United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1):
§8.k The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.
The Flag Code also says the flag should never be used for advertising, draperies, embroidered on cushions, or used as wearing apparel.
I remember hearing a story about the flag as apparel. Back in the '60s, hippies sometimes used the flag to patch their blue jeans, partly as a protest of the Vietnam War. Conservatives of the day were outraged, and wanted to pass laws making the practice illegal and severely punish anyone using the flag as clothing or part of clothing. Then some fashion designer made American Flag bikinis . . . and all efforts to punish flag clothing ceased.
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RETIRED MAJOR GENERAL PAUL D. EATON STATEMENT ON DONALD TRUMP'S TWEET ON FLAG BURNING [View all]
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Nov 2016
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For one thing if they lost their citizenship, they could be considered refugees, which would making
still_one
Nov 2016
#1
I bet 90% of vets with those stickers that say "my oath of enlistment never ends" don't agree.
Hoyt
Nov 2016
#3
PLEASE. She co-sponsored that bill to fend off a CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT on the same topic.
MADem
Nov 2016
#14
The people who can't or won't bother to understand how politics *WORKS* voted for Donald Trump.
baldguy
Nov 2016
#15
And what's a US president and military going to protect if not citizens' constitutional rights?
ancianita
Nov 2016
#17
I hear you. I just want someone to acknowledge that people's constitutional rights mean
ancianita
Nov 2016
#23
Thats what The People are always there for. To remind governments about humanity.
ancianita
Nov 2016
#28