about the flags that have sprouted everywhere since mindless flag waving became so popular a couple years ago.
Provided you don't use the flag to hype used cars or crooked politicians there's nothing mindless about flying the flag.
Why is it that the flags on one side of all our city busses, and some fire trucks, are displayed backwards?
Because the companies that make the decals usually only make one version and don't make a "reversed" version. Thusly the flag decals on one side face the opposite way the ones on the other side do.
I've called the MTC, as well as the Fire Dept. and no one can tell me who the person in charge of pasting the things on vehicles is.
Metro Transit has been installing the decals along with the union label decals for years. I'm not sure who puts fire departments decals on. The Postal Service where i work and Amtrak have been using the red, white, and blue stripe on each side of their trucks and trains for years. In my opinion this was quite tasteful and reflected the cooperation we had between the Postal Service and Amtrak before the Bush administration took most of the mail off the rails. Over the years several Postal Service drivers have also put flag decals on their trucks, and after the 9/11 attack I mounted a small flag on my truck. As that truck stays inside the Minneapolis Post Office except when we occasionally creep up the streets to the garage to fuel it the flag stays on pretty well.
This is more irritating to me than the issue of when to lower it. It shows a lack of respect. If you care enough to display it, one would think you would do it properly.
It is acceptable to fly a flag at night provided it is lighted, and all our parking areas are lighted as are the trucks when they're in motion.
from the heights of Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
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