Flag display controversy in WyCo!!!

My uncle Jack is a great guy, a Vet and also very picky about how the American Flag is displayed.

A recent story by Tess Koppelman highlights a tense debate over proper etiquette concerning the display of the American flag.

To honor their fallen brother, firefighters all across Wyandotte County have been flying flags at half-staff but one city's mayor is refusing to participate saying that it breaks the law.

The long line outside of St. Anthony's Church in KCK shows how well-liked Tluscik was. The 48-year-old was a proud firefighter and his fellow firefighters have been honoring him since he died last week by lowering flags to half staff. But in Edwardsville, flags aren't lowered because the mayor says it's against the law.

"I understand and I sympathize with the firefighters in wanting to show their appreciation and respect for a fallen firefighter although we won't break any codes of our nation to do that," Edwardsville mayor Heinz Rodgers said.

The Firemen wouldn't go on record but they did tell Koppleman that they were "angry" over the Mayor's decision.

What do you d-bags think? Remember that Kansas City violated the same kind of flag code in order to honor the late Lamar Hunt - Who is mentioned in the Warren Report and comes from a very rich family that has a (weak) connection to the Kennedy Assassination:

In much the same way that contemporary reactionaries were criticized following the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 for having incited terrorism through their antigovernment rhetoric, in the days following the assassination of John Kennedy, H. L. Hunt was castigated publicly. The New Republic editorialized that Hunt's last radio broadside on Kennedy, broadcast the morning of the assassination, was "[t]he kind of program . . . that the brooding Oswalds of the left- or right-wing listen and sometimes act on."

Ward's report -- and by extension the KGB's best estimate on "Who killed JFK?" -- probably derived from a discovery made by the FBI in late November that tied the Hunt family to the events in Dallas. In Jack Ruby's notebook, bureau agents found the name "Lamar Hunt," H.L.'s second son from his first marriage. By the time Ward's report reached Moscow, the distinction between Lamar and H. L. Hunt was lost. Indeed, for a while the US government wondered whether the Lamar Hunt connection was significant. On December 17 the FBI interviewed Lamar Hunt about Jack Ruby. Hunt denied ever having known Ruby. In jail Ruby agreed.

It's a tough call . . . Respecting the flag vs. honoring fallen firefighters . . . Somehow I think scantily clad women wrapped in an American-flag-inspired- design (which I think is also against the rules) should promote some kind of compromise.