National Flag Week on June, 2024: WHY DID I GO TO jail FOR ACCIDENTALLY DROPING THE FLAG aND HANDING IT BACK UP!!?

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Mishandling of the National Emblem.

There are laws, both local/municiple and state wide on the proper handling of the National Flag.

Remove my American Flag?

No I have no problem saluting our country's flag. Actually I called the hospital about this yesterday and got a recorded apology saying this was just a disagreement between two employees, they apologized and claimed it was not their beliefs. Of course they will protect their butts.

EDIT: Here is the link

Reporting

Carol Cavazos MANSFIELD (CBS 11 News) ―

Video:

For one Arlington woman, the answer was "no" after she hung an American flag in her office just before the Memorial Day weekend.

Debbie McLucas is one of four hospital supervisors at Kindred Hospital in Mansfield. Last week, she hung a three-by-five foot American flag in the office she shares with the other supervisors.

When McLucas came to work Friday, her boss told her another supervisor had found her flag offensive. "I was just totally speechless. I was like, 'You're kidding me,'" McLucas said.

McLucas' husband and sons are former military men. Her daughter is currently serving in Iraq as a combat medic.

Stifling a cry, McLucas said, "I just wonder if all those young men and women over there are really doing this for nothing."

McLucas said the supervisor who complained has been in the United States for 14 years and is formerly from Africa. McLucas said the supervisor took down Debbie's flag herself.

"The flag and the pole had been placed on the floor," McLucas said. But McLucas also said hospital higher ups had told her some patients' families and visitors had also complained.

"I was told it wouldn't matter if it was only one person," she said. "It would have to come down."

McLucas said hospital bosses told her as far as patriotism was concerned, the flag flying outside the hospital building would have to suffice.

Kindred Hospital Corporate Headquarters are located in Kentucky. They have yet to make a final decision on the matter. They have not returned our phone calls for comment.

The Kindred Hospital Corporation was chosen as Fortune's most admired for 2009. McLucas hopes they'll back her patriotism.

"I find it very frightening because if I can't display my flag, what other freedoms will I lose before all is said and done," McLucas asked.

(© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.)

How should anyone celebrate in USA "Flag Day"?

The week of June 14 is designated as "National Flag Week." During National Flag Week, the president will issue a proclamation urging U.S. citizens to fly the American flag for the duration of that week. The flag should also be displayed on all Government buildings. Some organizations hold parades and events in celebration of America's national flag and everything it represents. Other organizations and tribal groups hold counter-celebrations and protests.

The American flag does not instill the same sense of celebration and national pride in all Americans; for many indigenous Americans, including some Native Hawaiians and Native Americans, Flag Day is viewed as a commemoration of the imposition of the flag of the United States upon the hundreds of self-governing, sovereign nations of Native Americans that had their own cultural icons, emblems, and flag-like symbols prior to the dispossession of their tribal lands.

The National Flag Day Foundation holds an annual observance for Flag Day on the second Sunday in June. The program includes a ceremonial raising of the flag, recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance, singing of the National Anthem (The Star-spangled Banner), a parade and more.