One of my neighbors (now moved) put their torn US flag in the trash.

[Kajsa]

What's the correct way to dispose of it?

I couldn't stand it, I cut it loose from the pole
and put it in my car. I want to do this right.

There is something about the way the BA and Georgie
have hijacked our flag, country and Constitution that
makes me very protective of all the above.

Get this- the neighbor is a Repub.!
( This is Orange County,CA)

clarification-

The flag wasn't singled out- he left it with
a bunch of other stuff on the curb for trash pickup.

[no name no slogan]

1. Bring it to a VFW or American Legion

they will do a proper flag ceremony for it.

[Kajsa]

3. Thanks, that's what I'll do.

Now I know who will take it.

[xmas74]

6. Or call a local Boy Scout or Girl Scout troop.

They are taught how to dispose of it properly via ceremony that they will do once-twice a year.

[uppityperson]

2. make it into a bikini and sell to freepers. No, don't do that.

VFW

[Kajsa]

4. LOL !

They would buy it, you know.

:D

[Haole Girl]

5. It's nice that you care

And, sad that others just see it as simple garbage.

:patriot:

[Kajsa]

8. Thanks, KC2.

I think a lot of us here do care.
In fact, we are the true patriots!

:dem:

[Haole Girl]

9. So, true...

the Dems should sing that, in a commercial, to the tune of Queen's "We are the champions"!!!

[Kajsa]

13. LOL !

:D

[xmas74]

7. VFW, American Legion,

Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts.

Any one of them will know what to do.

[Gormy Cuss]

27. In scouts we were taught that burning it was appropriate

with some ceremony of gravity that I no longer remember.

[xmas74]

37. I'm working summer camp.

Our Teen group (Girl Scouts) will be holding a ceremony. Problem is, we see flags all over town that need to be disposed of in a proper manner but no one will give them to us to dispose of.

If we don't get a flag soon our girls will not be able to hold the ceremony.

[Gormy Cuss]

38. That's a shame.

My training in flag etiquette makes me wince when I see tattered flags on display, flags left on the pole at night, etc.

[xmas74]

42. Too many idiots around here who prefer to have them tattered.

Unless one of them ponies up, the girls will not have the experience.

[ghostsofgiants]

10. I will probably get flamed for this...

But it's just a piece of fabric.

[khashka]

12. True, but it's the symbolism

Symbols matter. Pro or con.

Khash.

[Crazy Dave]

40. True

Plus nobody worries too much about the tens of thousands of little flags that kids wave around during different events and where they go afterwards.

BTW - I am a veteran and a Legion member

[LeftyMom]

15. That was my thought too

I guess I'm a bad 'Murrkan :shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

33. I'm from Canada, so that automatically makes me a bad 'Murrkan.

:P

[no name no slogan]

16. Go back to Russia, you commie

[ghostsofgiants]

17. In Soviet Russia, Commie goes back to you!

[no name no slogan]

21. *

:spray:

[jonnyblitz]

18. exactly.

:thumbsup:

[ghostsofgiants]

19. Flag worship and nationalism...

I'll never understand it.

[NNadir]

20. Symbols for things are more important than the things themselves.

You don't need a constitution, a life, safety or security if you have a flag.

This is why congress is focusing on a flag burning amendment to the constitution at the same time the country is falling into the abyss.

You have your priorities wrong.

The cloth is the thing.

[GirlinContempt]

23. Is this sarcasm?

[ghostsofgiants]

30. I have my priorities wrong?

Do I really have to go into why I reject nationalism and its symbols (even such benign nationalism as this thread's subject) right now? Put very simply, since I do reject nationalism, I do so on a sliding scale: With the most benign nationalism, I view the flag as a mere piece of cloth; the less benign the nationalism, the more active my rejection of symbols such as flags. I do recognize the symbolism, I just reject it.

[NNadir]

31. I agree with you. I was being sarcastic.

[ghostsofgiants]

32. Haha, okay, good.

Kinda glad I decided not to go into all-out rant mode in that case. :P

[khashka]

11. What NNNS said. Also....

you can take it to your local military base, tell them the story and tell them you want it disposed of properly.

You can also look up online what to do. I did because we got my grandad's flag from off his coffin and the whole thing of how it's folded and everything was interesting and I wanted to know all about it. Unfortunately I don't have a link, I didn't bookmark it.



Khash.

[Kajsa]

14. Thanks, everyone.

I knew I would get help here.

You guys are the best!

:grouphug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Since you're a Democrat, aren't you supposed to piss on it and then

toss it at a veteran before you set it and him on fire while dancing naked around an icon of Queen Goddess Hitlery Klintoon and smoking crack and making welfare babies?

[ContraBass Black]

25. And taking away a sportsman's gun.

Don't forget that part.

[Rabrrrrrr]

29. Of course! How silly of me to forget that!

And I should have said "making welfare babies while happily and joyfully aborting half of the fetuses and forcing Christians to abort all their babies to make this an atheist, heathen nation of gay people".

[no name no slogan]

26. quit peeking in my windows

I'm like totally sickadatshit.

[KitchenWitch]

36. And talking on cellphones while letting my kids run rampant

in restaurants, eating fried chicken with cornflake breading.

[GirlinContempt]

24. Burn it

[ghostsofgiants]

28. Refused = ROCK

:headbang:

http://www.plyrics.com/lyrics/refused/burnit.html

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. I wish you'd made a photo of it

while it was in the Freeper's trash can.

And sent it to the Register, the Times et al with a couple dozen carefully chosen words. :patriot:

[Kajsa]

39. Looking back,

I wish I had, too.

I noticed it in the trash early in the AM on trash pickup day.
Even though I was running a bit late for work, I cut it loose
and put it in my car's back seat.

When I got to work, I told them what happened.
They were glad I rescued the flag.

[driver8]

35. That drives me crazy! A friend of our family's flies a flag on her car.

She was visiting one day and I saw that her flag was all torn and shredded. I told her it was very disrespectful to the flag to display it like that. I then asked her to please take that flag down and get a new one.

The next time I saw her she had a new flag and thanked me.

That is one thing that annoys the shit out of me. If you have enough pride in the flag to display it, display it properly with a nice looking flag. Don't fly a tattered and torn flag.

[Kajsa]

41. I so agree with you.

We have lots of torn and tattered flags flying around town.

Flying them from cars really beats the crap out of them, not to
mention if it's not secured properly, the flag ends up on the road.

I have always taken pride in flying our flag to show my support for
the principles it stands for- justice, freedom,checks and balances,
equality, helping those in need,etc.

They are all Democratic values- you know, the ones the BA is trying to eradicate.

:patriot:

Later edit- this late breaking news just backs my point.

http://tinyurl.com/rbcxs

Army Manual to Skip Geneva Detainee Rule
The Pentagon's move to omit a ban on prisoner humiliation from the basic
guide to soldier conduct faces strong State Dept. opposition.
By Julian E. Barnes, Times Staff Writer
June 5, 2006

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of
the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans "humiliating and degrading treatment," according to
knowledgeable military officials, a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift
away from strict adherence to international human rights standards.

[havocmom]

43. And if you're too lazy to bring it in at sunset, spring for a light on it.

Another of my pet peeves... flags left out in the dark while patriots busy watching FAUX news and agreeing with O'Reilly that liberals are the enemy because we dare ask questions.