Town Upset After American Flags from Cemetery Were Thrown in Dumpster

[rangerrebew]

Town Upset After American Flags from Cemetery Were Thrown in Dumpster

By Martin Lioll
on July 3, 2017 at 5:50am
 
Residents in one Missouri town are furious after a maintenance company threw away a bundle of American flags they had collected from graves in a local cemetery.

According to KTVI-TV, the incident occurred in Elsberry, Missouri, where Alliance Water Resources — a maintenance support company — took the flags off of veterans’ graves in the Elsberry Cemetery and threw them in the trash. Angry veterans groups were told that the flags were thrown away as part of the cleaning and mowing of the cemetery.

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[unite for individuality]

A guy I knew taught courses for Defense Acquisition University.
He taught a one week course at  Detroit Arsenal Army Base in Warren, MI.
The conference room that hosted the class
had previously hosted a promotion ceremony
for one of the Army officers stationed there.
After the ceremony, these Army officers
threw a bunch of flags in the trash!

[Smokin Joe]

When I was a Boy Scout (and a Cub Scout) we were taught proper flag etiquette and respect. But then, the Boy Scouts were a different organization then.

[rodamala]

On Flag Day every year, the railroad I worked at would give out little American flags to all the kids riding their summer passenger train ride.

The woman in the office went and bought these little junk paper flags glued onto bamboo shish kebab skewers to hand out... for like 2 cents each.

When they came in I looked at them and printed right on the paper flag it said Made In China.

I went and found an American company that made cloth hand flags with hardwood dowels for staffs and the were about a Dollar each.  I used my own money and bought them, and the day they arrived I uncerimoniously threw out the Oriental Trading Company garbage ones.