I display a flag on Dec 12, Veterans and Memorial Day Holidays, and my brother’s birthday but that’s it. The rest of the year I enjoy looking at my next-door neighbors flag that he flies on a flag pole.
I have to ask why Dec. 12. Is it your birthday?
My brother was on that flight.
At one point, we hung one off the porch, probably around July 4 or possibly after 9/11. But we just left it there.
At least, I think we did. It’s to the point that it could be a confabulation.
Now all we do is occasionally buy some small ones to wave around on July 4.
A small one by our front steps. My neighbor flies a great big Jolly Roger during baseball season.
We had a neighbor with a huge flag pole, keep it lit up at night, and would sometimes fly your typical right-wingish flags, like the Gadsden. (And the Confederate flag – bitch, you live in Pittsburgh, not Atlanta) After Obama was elected, she flew it upside down. Thank god she’s no longer there.
The hyperpatriotism aspect has pretty much ruined it for me. I understand some innocuous patriotism, like rooting for the US at the Olympics and such. But not much more than that. I figure that, if I were living somewhere else, I’d cheer for that team instead.
I think the US has a lot of good things to it. But those are things that are shared with many other countries. And some of them have a better combination of things I like.
I feel a little bit more patriotic towards Arkansas, but I think that has to do with its underdog status. And I still think I’d change if I moved somewhere else. How strong is your patriotism if you just happen to like the place where you currently are?
Before, I kinda liked the ritual with the flag, and might have actually liked flying one. But not since it became a sign of how patriotic you are.
I fly the US flag on holidays and the Marine Corps flag on November 10.
I have designed my own flag but have never had one made, and since November 10 is also my birthday, I would feel like I must fly both my flag and the USMC flag, and there is only room for one flag in front of my house. I suppose I could switch them around off and on all day, but that sounds like work.
I also have a Finnish flag that I fly on their independence day.
I’m so sorry for your loss. I didn’t know anything about this crash and appreciate the opportunity to learn about it. (Unfortunately I think Canada knows a lot more about American tragedies etc. than we do about Canadian.) Thanks for helping fight my ignorance.
I swap out my U.S. flag out every three months or so…
I even bought the nifty pole that spins with the flag, since it juts out from the porch at a 60 degree angle…
Our local City Hall has a dedicated, re-purposed mail box to drop off your weathered flags for proper destruction. I always buy the decent flags that have the embroidered stars. {they can be bought cheaply on Amazon}.
I do not consider myself overly patriotic, but after I returned from the Peace Corps I started to fly the flag regularly.
I’m surprised no one has mentioned that people should not be flying an old, tattered flag. It just seems disrespectful in some way…
Sorry, Guin but you need to pick another city. The population of Atlanta, as of the 2010 census, is 54% “Black or African American alone” and only 38% “White alone”. You won’t see many confederate flags in Atlanta and, if you do, you can bet they won’t be there long.
That totally fucking rocks! Hardly ever hear about Wobblies any more!
No flags flyin’ here at the Bomicile except the proverbial freak flag.
I said “other”. My parents displayed the flag on patriotic days, which I thought was nice, but for some reason I never got around to putting one up in my current house. Now that it’s been painted and the yard looks nice I’m going to start putting one out on holidays. Currently I’m awaiting delivery of my Grumpy Cat flag, because I’m tacky like that 
I’m late to this thread, but it involves Sunday, so, yeah, I fly the flag. Always. I’m a hard left liberal democrat. And I am an American. As long as I owned a house I would fly the flag on the usual dates. When the towers came down, I got up and went to work. We spent a while hanging about, listening to news reports, and they sent us home. Driving down the 5, somewhere near Atwater Village, on an overpass, a kid with long hair was standing, holding up an American flag above his head. It was the first thing I saw that morning that wasn’t a plane crashing into a building. I pulled into my garage, fished out my ratty flag, and it’s been up ever since. Not the same flag. I replace it and light it as it needs attention.
Nice story, Backwater Under_Duck.
What flag?
I put the flag out on holidays and September 11th
Sorry. Pick some hardcore “The South Is Going To Rise Again!” town. I just went with the first Southern city I could think of.
In a somewhat related aside, the USA is one of the few countries in which the flag is commonly flown. I’ve been in 25 countries in the past year, and unscientifically observing flag display. The winner by a wide margin is Bahrain, where it is hard to drive more than a mile without seeing their national flag flying. Thailand is another country where the flag is widely displayed. In some countries, I spent a week or more, without seeing a single flag, including, sadly, Sri Lanka, which has one of the world’s most beautiful flags.
UK, no, absolutely never. I’m struggling to think when I last saw a Union Jack flying in a private residence (and even on official buildings come to that)
Would be incredibly tacky to me. The amount of flag-waving in the states has a whiff of the fascist about it and the fact that there is even a “code” related to the USA flag turns my stomach slightly.
We hang bunting on Independence Day.