flag-burning

[danohu]

palmer1984 just posted a meme that touches on flag-burning. I've always been bewildered by the (mainly American?) objection to burning flags. But if you accept that flag-burning is Bad and Wrong...

How do True Patriots care for their ageing flags? Are they stored indefinitely? Given heroic burial (cremation presumably isn't an option)? Is there a patch of desert somewhere, where old flags fly until they disintegrate completely?

The military are big on flags and big on rules; they must have some baroque procedure for getting rid of the old ones.

Also: I've only come across the obsession with flag-burning in an American context. Are there equally small-minded patriots in the UK and elsewhere?

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[atreic.livejournal.com]

In comments on this elsewhere, a friend wrote:

"* Does it make difference to your price whether you burn the flag during the federally-recommended flag honourable disposal ritual, or as an insult to America, or neither?

(Notice: people actually are paid to do the first. I wonder what the breakdown of flags burnt are, in categories of "official", "anti-America", "protest breaking of the constitution", "annoyingly ironic/artistic", "other" and "whoopsie" :)


So apparently the right way to get rid of flags is to burn them. But it's OK when the good guys do it.

[atreic.livejournal.com]

Genuine Website?

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

ah, that's truly disturbing touching.

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

To be fair, that logic holds for human bodies.