Flag Code

Canon EOS 6D Mark II

EF24-70mm ƒ4L IS USM

The flag this fellow was displaying at my local No Kings protest presented quite a contrast with the one flying off the back end of a large pickup truck that drove through the crowd. That flag had the familiar stars and stripes, but also with a black-and-white image of our führer superimposed over the stripes. Someone near me, when she saw that, commented about how--in the small town where she grew up--that would have been considered a desecration, which prompted me to look this up in Wikipedia:

"The United States Flag Code outlines certain guidelines for the flag's use, display, and disposal. For example, the flag should never be dipped to any person or thing, unless it is the ensign responding to a salute from a ship of a foreign nation. This tradition may come from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where countries were asked to dip their flag to King Edward VII: the American flag bearer did not. Team captain Martin Sheridan is famously quoted as saying, "this flag dips to no earthly king", though the true provenance of this quotation is unclear."