It was truely sad several months after 9/11 to see so many flags flying in tatters on cars and trucks. I could not count how many I say so destroyed by the high speed driving that people were doing with the flag attached.
What is even worse about the whole thing is the extremely poor quality flags that the retail stores were selling so that they could make a buck off of the 'patriotic' Americans. Many stores were selling the cheap silk-screened flags bulk cut from large print rolls. The edges remained un-stitched or sealed in any way and then cheaply stapled to a piece of dowl. Most of those flags, 'Made in China' would last about 5 minutes on a car's antenna before they became shredded.
I had a bunch of flag display and care brochures that I would leave under the wipers of cars that had old flags on them, in hopes the owner would read it and realize that they should retire the flag they were 'flying'. <-- I had to revert to that after almost being arrested for theaft when I was caught removing such flags from people's cars at a local mall.
America is a land of Trends. Too bad flying a flag is a trend that most people seem to neglect and only do part of. The latest trend is hanging flags on Chain-link fences on highway overpasses. Unfortunately, those flags wind up caught in the links and get torn and splashed with dirty road water.
Distraught
Midnight
