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The Night Rider said:
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I'm not sure if I posted this here before or not but I think I'm about to start a fight.

Flags don't last very long in Colorado to begin with, just because of the altitude they bleach out real quick.

I keep my mouth shut because all it would do is start a fight but it annoys the hell out of me when I see people driving around with a flag mounted in the back of their pickup truck and it's shredded appears like it's been there for 2 years.

A lot of the folks around me fly flags. And they do replace them a couple of times a year but the majority of the time that those flags are up they're bleached out in the sun and they look like streamers.

I'm not doing that.

If you guys don't know I'm on a fixed income.

I can't afford to replace a quality flag three times a year. So I don't fly one.

This is the part that starts the fight.

I used to have to do security checks in the cemetery every night and had to unlock the gates every morning.

In the old Cemetery there is the tombstone that I pictured here. The guy's name was Quartermaster Sergeant Francis Cottrell 11th Michigan volunteer Calvary.

It doesn't say one way or the other whether or not he was a slave and I think if he was a probably would have mentioned that. But he was a black guy, he fought in the Civil War and during the war he contracted tuberculosis.

After the war he moved to Colorado Springs because people thought that the high altitude and dry Mountain Air I don't know if they thought it was a cure or they thought it was slow the progression of the disease. Either way it didn't, and he died here.

The buried him in the old Pioneer Cemetery at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs.

Every year on Veterans Day and Memorial Day they put Flags on all the military Graves. And then they leave them there and the wind destroys them in the sun fades them out and they look like crap and a little monster so later when the caretakers finally get around to it they go pick him up and they throw all the flags in a dumpster.

Quartermaster Sergeant Cottrell and I got to be buds while I was working there. So when they put a flag on his grave (I didn't know it at the time but it was) my last Memorial Day working the cemetery.

I left it up there for about a week to honor him and then I took it and I brought it home so it wouldn't get ruined and thrown in the trash.

The flag in that photograph is hanging in our spare bedroom. It's still in good shape. It's still treated with respect and hey, guess what, it's not in a landfill somewhere.

The last time I mentioned that here some I'll be generous say "members" who are actually no longer with us decided to get all pout raged because I "stole"the flag from the grave.

I kind of don't care what y'all think about it. I know why I did it I saved that flag from being desecrated.
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If you didn't like the first story you're REALLY not going to like this one.

I don't remember who mounted that flag on my gun
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in Germany. It went through two or three field problems, it got beat up. There is Graff dust on it and at some point I think it was during my last field problem I decided to retire it. It is folded up in a baggie and a metal cigar box with my wedding ring and my metals and all that crap that I am not going to put on an "I Love Me" wall.

I think when they cremate me I want somebody to stick it in my breast pocket and sprinkle me and it over the back 40.
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yeah, i don't think you stole the flag, as you said, you saved it from an inevitable ending, at the hands of the cemetary..

like for instance, my grandads' grave, he is buried with grandma, at a catholic cemetery. every spring around Memorial Day, i place a fag at thier grave.....grand dad was in WW1, but i think he served stateside. i remove the flag right after Veterans Day.....in fact a few short years ago, i paid the stone mason around $200.00 to engrave WW1 into his stone, as it was never done. 3 characters, for $200.00...best money i ever spent.

however, i do not buy American made flags, due to the cost for one, as i too am on a fixed income, and cannot afford a flag, every time the winds break it, and it flies away, or the graveyard workers run close to it with the mowers or weed whackers, and destroy it....yes, they are sloppy workers, and complaining gets me no where's.

i am lucky to get at least 1 month's worth of fly time out of 1 flag...again, limited income, means i have to go cheap(er).

then there are "flag stealers" that cruise the cemetery and steal the flowers, or toys for the kids graves, or as i said, the flags......

one like me (or you on fixed incomes) simply cannot afford some things..

so no, you did not steal the flag from that mans grave, you did save it from most likely a non-traditional, non- respectful, destruction.
 
BassCliff said:
Hi,

Drat, the snow was too sticky to clear it with my leaf blower. I ran a quick pusher over it, then salted.

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Hopefully the salt will break up the ice so I don't slip and crack my head open.


Thank you for your indulgence,

BassCliff
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That sure is a big ole bright light you got in the middle of yer front bumper. i bet you be blindin folks. 😁
 
powerboatr said:
today i did diddddddly
best thing is ac is off, heat is off and i napped a few times
and watched memes about child care centers of LEARING
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Old_Me said:
so no, you did not steal the flag from that mans grave, you did save it from most likely a non-traditional, non- respectful, destruction.
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I wasn't speculating on how that flag was going to end up. I did security in that Cemetery for a while. Down at the caretakers building there was one of those long construction dumpsters. And I saw it full of those little Cemetery flags on more than one occasion.
 
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