Well, I picked up a new flag and hung it outside. I thought about ironing out the wrinkles, but since I bought a nylon flag instead of cotton this year, I wasn't so sure if I'd wind up damaging it instead of only taking out the wrinkles and fold lines.
I prefer good-quality cotton flags, but I don't have the spare change to get on this year. Perhaps next year I can get a nice cotton flag - displaying bright and proud colors, waving in the breeze, and
on Memorial Day will fly high (like ROLLING THUNDER) above my Marine Corps flag (my next door neighbor is Army, but down the street you'll find a few more Marine Corps flags and perhaps the occasional Navy flag).
No worries as we ALL look out for each other and have a terrifically low crime rate in these parts - which unfortunately doesn't apply to the bottom of the hill and the apartments at the end of the entrance street (whose residents know better than to come up here looking for trouble or to commit petty crimes). It's amazing what a solid walnut buttstock can accomplish when liberally applied to the head, even WITH a recoil pad! Nope, those turds stay away from places they KNOW they might get shot.
See, military vets flying their service flags has a GREAT deterrent effect all in themselves!
