Isn't it a no no to WEAR the American Flag?

It may or may not help you with your question.


http://www.access.gpo.gov/uscode/title4/chapter1_.html

Oh, God, don't get me started...

The right-wing flag-worshipers of this country have done more to dishonor the flag than all the flag-burners in history. Every time I see one of those dirty, frayed, banners flapping in front of their houses, I want to knock on their doors and tell them the rules for displaying it. What really gets me is the fact that they leave them up at night! When I was a child, everyone knew that flags must always be taken in at sunset. To wear them was unheard of, and on bumper stickers? Good God.

A flag is never to be displayed that is worn or dirty, it must be folded in a certain manner, and the only proper means of disposing of one is - yes - to burn it.

I remember when the musical "Hair" was a big phenomenon in the sixties, there was a song in it that made fun of flag-worship, but the staging consisted of several hippies folding the flag - properly. Even in that context, it was treated with respect. Now, people in this country are so ignorant, they don't even know how to show it respect. Another failure of our education system.

I have often thought that Flag Day ought to be a day when people are taught how to show proper respect for the flag, what it stands for, and then, all the previous years flags would be burned and replaced with new ones. Wouldn't that be a nice way for people to spend some time thinking about this country, what it is, ought to be, and could be? A nice civic ritual, and one that would turn flag-burning into a positive thing.

Of course, I would then like to see all-night naked dancing around the bonfires...but that's just me...lol!

not using it as a gratuitous decoration,not flying tattered flags from the antenna of your pick-up truck, and not leaving a flag flying in your yard day and night, rain, sleet and snow until it's a tattered rag. (My next door neighbor does the latter and it pisses me off. But he thinks he's being oh so patriotic.)

The interesting thing is that both of my parents, including my Vietnam vet father support(ed) the right to burn the flag as part of free speech. (And so do I.) But they hate(d) the gratuitous and disrespectful strewing of flags everywhere until they become meaningless that has become so accepted after 9/11.

the Bush supporter, and signal unquestioning support for the so-called war on terror. I think Obama is right not to wear one and I support him in that.

And, like I said, I was taught that you're not supposed to wear the flag as a fashion accessory.