WAVE THE FLAG FREELY

Shame on a Richmond, Virginia Neighborhood Association, for threatening to take a WWII veteran to court, to prevent him from using his flagpole to wave his American flag. According to their guidelines, using the flagpole apparently makes their ‘neighborhood’ look bad. They instead want him to hang the flag from his front porch.

Well…shame on them.

One of the reasons they have the right to form...‘their little association with all its rules’...is because of men like him. Oh…he’s not just some ‘kook’...he’s one of the oldest Medal of Honor recipients in our country. They don’t give that medal out to just anyone.

Cindy’s dad was a veteran of WWII. I still remember when he got a flag and flagpole for a gift, and how proud he seemed when it was erected. Each morning, he would go out and proudly raise the flag, and at dusk, would lower it and bring the flag inside. He taught my children how you raise and lower the flag so that it doesn’t touch the ground, so not to show disrespect to the colors or country.

Too many times, a flag is seen flying in inclement weather or after dark. I believe proper etiquette and respect of the flag suggests you should not fly it during those times.

Now these idiots think it would be ‘prettier’ for their neighborhood if the retired Colonel would hang it from his porch.

This 90-year-old retired Colonel has earned the right to display the flag anyway he wants.

Shame on the neighborhood association. They just don’t get it.

Maybe they call it an ‘ASS’ociation for a reason.


Dan