U.S. Flag Code

[jtomaha]

As a friendly, but important, reminder the US Flag should not touch the ground.

While researching, I was astonished to see how many listings for the flag include photos of the flag laid out on the floor for photos, or even outside on the grass/dirt. If you are not aware of U.S. Flag code, just read up a little bit before posting your flag for sale. You can also safely and respectfully dispose of your U.S. flag at the American Legion, VFW posts, as well as many governmental facilities.

Happy Listing!

[simba6]

There is nothing sellers can do to a flag that would compare to what happens with flag postage stamps.

I thought the flag rules covered display?  They do sit on store shelves too.

[krazzykats]

And please donate unused, dirty, raggedy flags to your local American Legion for proper disposal, thank you! 

[fbusoni]

The flag is important, but most people could not care less... and eBay could not care even less than most people.

Quite frankly, I'm more concerned with merchant-of-death sellers who ship animals to buyers only to have them arrive DOA.

Something else eBay seems wholly unconcerned about.

[silverstatetreasureboxes]

@jtomaha 

A refreshing bit of good advice.

[tinsoldierunderground]

Well put... and unfortunate.   

[krazzykats]

I think the flag is still very important to some of us, but in another 10 years most of us won't be here anyway and will be forgotten as well.

The American Spirit is dying off and few care.

[meme6253]

I agree the American spirit is dying off, I currently will not display my flag, which i was proud to do before, but current situations are feeling more like an America i no longer recognize, I have it properly folded & stored & Hope that my feelings will change.

[fbusoni]

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@krazzykats wrote:

I think the flag is still very important to some of us, but in another 10 years most of us won't be here anyway and will be forgotten as well.

The American Spirit is dying off and few care.

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@krazzykats 

I hope to make it at least another 20...  and if I do, I will be overjoyed.  

But I am not terribly interested in being part of -- or experiencing any more than I have to -- the slow-motion collapse of our way of life.

We of a certain age are blessed to have been able to experience what I reckon historians will eventually judge to be the best years of life in the USA.  

Before computers and all the associated poison and filth and distortion and intellectual stultification and miserable entitlement and disregard of decency that has accompanied the evolution and proliferation of information technology, I mean.

[bennotbill]

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@jtomaha wrote:

As a friendly, but important, reminder the US Flag should not touch the ground.

I never knew that, but not being an American should excuse me a little. The Union Jack also gets handled badly sometimes. There the thing is with it being mistakenly flown upside down. Even on official flag poles sometimes.

[krazzykats]

A neighbor three doors down dyed their American flag black...sigh...nothing sacred and nothing gained.

[buyselljack2016]

An American flag was defaced with a signature.

[inhawaii]

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@meme6253 wrote:

I agree the American spirit is dying off, I currently will not display my flag, which i was proud to do before, but current situations are feeling more like an America i no longer recognize, I have it properly folded & stored & Hope that my feelings will change.

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I'm with you.

I've taken down my American flag also.

I'm not feeling very proud right now.

As a matter of fact, i'm feeling downright embarrassed.

I'm waiting for US citizens to start flying their flags upside down.

It's coming.

[chapeau-noir]

They also do not make very good backgrounds for photos.

[mtgraves7984]

My pet peeve is the flag's presentation. Hanging vertically or horizontally... display with the stars in the upper left corner.