[Carl in Tampa]

I tend to agree with ajbrown about the inappropriateness of posting the address where the flags are being flown contrary to the Flag Code. It smacks of Vigilantism.

I also doubt if many people in The Villages were aware of the rule regarding flying the flags of two nations on one flagpole. It could be that the violator, seeing flagpoles flying the U.S. flag with state flags, military service flags and P.O.W. flags had no idea that he was violating the Flag Code.

As a practical matter I doubt that HOA rules would permit the installation of two flagpoles in the homeowner's yard.

My personal preference is for no other flag to be flown from the same halyard as the U.S. Flag.

How many readers of this post have ever complained to a university or NFL football team about the unfurling of a giant USA flag over the field during half-time exercises? It is a violation of the Flag Code to carry a US flag flat or horizontally. (8 c.)

How many vets reading this post are aware of a change in the law that now authorizes serving military not in uniform and all veterans to render the military hand salute during the passing, raising or lowering of the US flag and the playing of the National Anthem?

To help put this in perspective, I was in a foreign country several years ago when preparations were being made for a Forth of July celebration in the American Embassy. Workers were about to hang a flag vertically against a wall and they asked the Ambassador where the blue field should be located. He got it wrong!

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