Section 8: Respect for the Flag

The United States Flag:
Federal Law Relating to Display
and Associated Questions

Title 4 United States Code:

Section 8: Respect for the Flag

"The flag should never touch anything beneath it, such as the ground, the
floor, water, or merchandise."

It's Christmas 2005, and the US flag flies in the Georgian winds of North Atlanta. A room full of U.S. citizens mingle inside, while their symbol of freedom flaps in the strong mountain breeze.

"Hey, the wind's picking up" someone notes. The wind, now gusting through the Appalachian mountain ranges, is picking up speed. Loose items are being blown away, and house sidings are taking quite the beating.

A small collection of mountain men collect by the patio doors, where the flag flies proudly above. "Woh, it's being pulled right off" explains one of the men. For a few brief seconds, everyone's attention is now drawn to the flag, now connected to the house by only one of the 3 brackets designed to hold it secure, and only one of the loops designed to hold the flag tight to its pole.

Making an assessment, the entire room returns to its conversations hustle, entirely ignoring the imminent fall of the nations pride.

The next thing to happen, was, some people say, representative of a long, and rich history. The British guy gets up, run outside, and manages to grab the flag as it's pulled from its holding place, and falls toward the floor.

In a image that may really only be funny to a Brit, here you can see it capture for all time.

Yet again, the Brits come in and do the work the US need doing Oooh! controversial!