Re: [VAL] Re: Flag display

[gillguy@xxxxxxx]

Jim
I agree with you 100%. As a USAF retiree and Gulf War vet I feel that the
MIA-POW flag should be allowed. To me it is a more meaningful flag than the
WBC.
I am not an expert on flag display's, nor do I claim to be. Trying to figure
out the proper placement of multiple flags is sometimes confusing, in which
case I usually have to refer back to my military PFE guide which shows/tells
proper placement and position when multiple flags are displayed.
One thing that amazes me though is how some organizations set there own
standards with no real understanding of the flag/flags and their importance or
meaning. The Boy Scouts of America is one organization that teaches our young
boys to love/honor/respect our flag, but yet on the uniform they wear the flag
backwards. When my son joined this year and got his uniform with the the U.S.
flag on the right sleeve with the Union to the rear I removed it and put
another in it's place with the Union forward. When asked by another parent,
why his was different I told him that the flag was backwards and I fixed it.
He then told me that his uniform must match the others and that's the way it's
supposed to be. I then told him the correct way to display the flag and if
it's to be worn on a uniform by my son it will be right or not at all.
Afterward I wrote a few letters to the BSA.

Sorry if I seem to have gotten off track, but you go JIM. Display the MIA-POW
flag with pride

Bobby Gill