Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés of The Moderate Voice: The Denver flag "travesty" is no such thing.

[Bluebear]

http://www.themoderatevoice.com/

I spoke to two persons at DNC downtown when I was in Denver today: 12,000 flags were wrapped along with thousands of signs for pickup. A worker called the Republican headquarters in Denver ‘to report’ the travesty that wasn't. Some of the GOP people took the worker at his/her word that these were on the loading dock and therefore (in the worker’s mind) were being thrown away. They weren't. They were waiting for transport. According to DNC cleanup coordinators, someone (said worker? no one knows) took quite a few of the flags from stadium without permission. Oh, and someone thought to take pictures of the flags wrapped for transport.

My husband USAF 21 years verifies what several of you have already offered… just to answer the questions swirling on Internet… to dispose of flags soiled, torn beyond repair, unless heirloom or commemoration flags carried during battle or other significant event, such as commemorative burial of a veteran, the proper conduct is to burn completely, and to bury the ashes. It is, in military, a ceremony. In private, it is asked that it simply be done with respect.

[lamp_shade]

1. Does anybody know who exactly stole them? A name/picture?

[tanyev]

2. Are the small souvenir flags considered the same as a "real" flag according to the flag code?

I think not, or else GWB has desecrated quite a few flags by signing his autograph on them.