Please fly your flag!
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The Night Rider
Professional
Some of you are not going to like what I'm about to write.
This is my Flag.
It flew over this guy's grave.
Francis Cottrell quartermaster sergeant 11th Michigan Volunteer Calvary. He was a black guy who fought for the Union in the Civil War and then came to Colorado Springs because he contracted tuberculosis in the military camps during the Civil War. He came here believing that the high altitude and dry Mountain Air was a cure for tuberculosis. Unfortunately he died at the age of 44 of tuberculosis.
This is the part you guys aren't going to like, three days after they put it on his grave I took it. The reason I took it is because the year before I didn't and that flag sat out there and rotted until the groundskeeper threw it in the dumpster. So I brought this one home.
I don't really have any place to fly it because I live in an apartment but when we get to The Ohana it's going on the front porch every Memorial Day.
This is my other flag, I don't know who put it on my gun in Graff
but again I kept it. It's still got the Graff dust on it and it's still got a couple of drops of motor oil on it. I've kept it for pretty close to 30 years
This is my Flag.
It flew over this guy's grave.
Francis Cottrell quartermaster sergeant 11th Michigan Volunteer Calvary. He was a black guy who fought for the Union in the Civil War and then came to Colorado Springs because he contracted tuberculosis in the military camps during the Civil War. He came here believing that the high altitude and dry Mountain Air was a cure for tuberculosis. Unfortunately he died at the age of 44 of tuberculosis.
This is the part you guys aren't going to like, three days after they put it on his grave I took it. The reason I took it is because the year before I didn't and that flag sat out there and rotted until the groundskeeper threw it in the dumpster. So I brought this one home.
I don't really have any place to fly it because I live in an apartment but when we get to The Ohana it's going on the front porch every Memorial Day.
This is my other flag, I don't know who put it on my gun in Graff
but again I kept it. It's still got the Graff dust on it and it's still got a couple of drops of motor oil on it. I've kept it for pretty close to 30 years
The Night Rider
Professional
Yes I did. Better that than let it sit there and rot.
Knock yourself out. Say what you got to say.
BassCliff
Professional
Hi,
I fly my flag all the time. It has a light for at night. I take it down only during inclement weather.
I'm grateful for all those who served and sacrificed everything.
"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 (NASB1995)
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
I fly my flag all the time. It has a light for at night. I take it down only during inclement weather.
I'm grateful for all those who served and sacrificed everything.
"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." John 15:13 (NASB1995)
Thank you for your indulgence,
BassCliff
Sld1959
Ronin
Interesting...
The Night Rider
Professional
Do you really not understand that I didn't take it off his grave to desecrate his grave or because I thought it would be a cool souvenir?
In fact that Cemetery was the last place I went every morning and I spent a lot of time at his grave. I looked him up I found out who he was.
I took that flag because the memorial day before the Boy Scouts or whoever went through Evergreen Cemetery and put flags on every veteran's grave and then they left them there until they rotted. Then the groundskeepers went around and picked them all up and threw them in a dumpster.
You may or may not know this, but that's not the way the flag is supposed to be disposed of.
So go ahead and Hate
Sld1959
Ronin
Note hating, but there were other options shy of stealing a vets flag. Pick it up fold it properly and put it in a heavy duty plastic bad and replace it. Discuss the matter with a local VFW perhaps.
Stealing would not be the first option, not for me at least.
And yes, was on honor guard for years, I know how to fold, display, and dispose of flags properly.
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The Night Rider
Professional
I don't consider what I did stealing. I'm not going to say you don't have some good points but we are where we are. I brought that flag home 10 years ago.
The Night Rider
Professional
Again, we are where we are
Recusant
Hellcat
AS I see it, your actions show you cared. You took the time to look up this man’s history
and you keep Mr. Cottrell’s memory alive. Many vets who died years ago have no one to ever say their name.
HayesGreener
Ronin
Mine flys 24/7 on a 28’ pole in the front yard. Floodlight on it at night. Been that way for the last 20 years. Flag is replaced as soon as it shows wear. Replacement is in original package awaiting its time. I ONLY buy American made all weather flags and I can usually get a year out of one. Worn ones are folded properly and my Son takes them to the Ft. for proper disposal.