Flags are a symbol of a nation, team, organization. When you see them fly you get an idea of what it’s about. They can represent heritage and identity. People are so wrapped up in flags that they almost feel like blankets of comfort. We like to be comfortable in our attitudes, beliefs, ideology. When someone dies flags are to be a certain height on a pole…however we miss the greater point of the persons being dead. If we lowered the flag every time someone died it wouldn’t be at the top of the pole, ever. Is the tradition of the pole something more than the death itself. Flags are essentially decorated fabric and in the grand scheme of things is it worth more than someones humanity or feelings. Maybe we should focus on people more than flags or their poles. Sometimes flags aren’t anything to have fun with.
The Tony Burgess Blog 
we lower a flag to half staff to honor a fallen warrior. it’s a matter or respect to the member of the US Armed Forces and their family. it’s an old tradition and a time honored tradition. GI’s understand that tradition. GI’s also see more than a piece of cloth when our flag is flying. go ask any World War 2 vet or Nam vet what they see when they see the flag waving. ask the same thing to any service man or woman who spent some time in “The Box”.
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I respect the fallen who have served in military. Lately we have been so focused on flags and poles that the reason for this tradition gets lost.
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I understand what you are saying Tony. It is a perspective I have never thought about. 🙂
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