Can someone teach our Olympians proper respect for the Flag?
I’m all for showing pride, but there are proper and appropriate ways to show the Flag. Using the Flag as a cape isn’t one of them.
Every Olympics, the same disrespectful displays of the Flag happen. One year, well before the Olympics, I wrote the United States Olympic Committee, asking them to give all our Olympic athletics instructions on proper respect for the Flag. I never got a response.
Tags: flag etiquette, Olympics, U. S. Flag
August 21, 2008 at 8:09 am |
I agree with you. I think it is disgusting that not only the Americans, but other countries display our flag as a blanket. It is disrespectful. They should hold a small flag in their hands and leave the larger flags folded in their boxes, not as a blanket. Terrible.
August 21, 2008 at 8:30 am |
Ainsley started crying on my lap when we were reading this. Apparently, she agrees with you.
August 21, 2008 at 8:41 am |
I totally agree with you too and I hope others do. Please post the address of the US Olympic Committee so more of us can write in. Of course I love it when the US wins gold but it is a double ended sword when I see them prancing around with a wadded up flag in their hand or drapped over their sweaty back.
August 21, 2008 at 11:14 am |
Oh, I forgot to say this to. That first picture, and I can’t remember her name, is gross. Why does she even bother wearing anything. You can see straight through her suit. I can’t stand beach volleyball. I don’t think they need to wear such skimpy outfits. The guys don’t.