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MrScorpio

(73,631 posts) Sat Jun 23, 2012, 07:56 AM Jun 2012

For Bravery...

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For Bravery... (Original Post) MrScorpio Jun 2012 OP

lol. Surely that's a stuffed squirrel though. alphafemale Jun 2012 #1

It's photoshopped. I can tell from the pixels. Bucky Jun 2012 #3

Well now that's not right. Dubya had the star field switched to the right side of the flag. HopeHoops Jun 2012 #2

Are you sure it was Dubya? Bucky Jun 2012 #4

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)

1. lol. Surely that's a stuffed squirrel though.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jun 23, 2012, 09:10 AM

Jun 2012

No way anybody could get an outfit like that on a live squirrel.

Bucky

(54,035 posts)

3. It's photoshopped. I can tell from the pixels.

Reply to alphafemale (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 23, 2012, 01:58 PM

Jun 2012

Also, I'm familiar with all internet memes

HopeHoops

(47,675 posts)

2. Well now that's not right. Dubya had the star field switched to the right side of the flag.

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Sat Jun 23, 2012, 11:38 AM

Jun 2012

That royally pisses me off. The field belongs on the left whether vertical or horizontal. And yes, you can get a squirrel to do such things. You just need fresh peanuts.

Bucky

(54,035 posts)

4. Are you sure it was Dubya?

Reply to HopeHoops (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 23, 2012, 02:04 PM

Jun 2012

I thought it was that the Army wore their flag patches on the left shoulder (common practice in most armies of the world) and pilots wore them on the right. Anyway, flag protocol states that the star field should fly as if carried on a staff; thus the blue field should fly to the "front", making the right shoulder patch, not the left, the version that's flying "backwards" (or rather, seen as from the reverse side of the flag).

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