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Letter: Treat flag with respect

By Dean Ickes, Hazel Dell
Published: April 22, 2018, 6:00am

I think it’s fine if people want to fly the American flag but do it respectfully, don’t just put a bracket on the side of your house, get a flag on a pole and stick it up and forget it.

These people don’t take it down at night when there is no light on it, they don’t take it in when we are having stormy weather and they leave it tangled up when it gets hung up with the gutter or roof.

It is very obvious that they have never been a Boy Scout or have been in a military boot camp. I don’t believe that Boy Scouts or veterans would ever treat our flag that way.

I walk in our neighborhood for exercise and one day I walked by a house with the flag flying upside down. A woman was out watering so I asked her if she needed help as that is, as you probably know, a sign of distress. No help was needed.

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