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Vet Faces Lawsuit For Flying American Flag

CLERMONT, Fla. -- A Central Florida war veteran faces a lawsuit for flying the American flag on a pole in his front yard.

"I don't understand why it would bring down the values of our homes by flying the American flag from a pole in my front yard," homeowner Jimmie Watkins said.

The former retired U.S. Navy communications officer said he refuses to back down for the American flag.

"Our people are serving today to give us freedom to do as we like here within the law of America," Watkins said. "It is my right to fly my flag from my pole and until a court of law tells me to haul that down, I will not haul it down. I think about all of the people who have served our nation and all of the lives that it's cost and all of the friends that I've lost."

Local 6 reported that all surrounding subdivisions in Kings Ridge allow a flag pole display in a person's front yard.

Jim Hart, who handles property management for 1,500 properties, including Sussex, said it is the association's call and not his.

"Each sub-association has its own set of documents and they can differ," Hart said. "The rationale for that only exists within the minds of the folks that are doing it. I can't sit here and tell you why."

The homeowner's association is not commenting about their rules. But state law said anyone can display a flag in a "respectful manner" as long as it is removable, Local 6 reported.

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A student at the University of Maine is at the center of controversy after laying American flags all over the floor of one of the school’s main buildings.  According to FOX News:

“Susan Crane … placed hundreds of flags on the floor of the school's student center Tuesday for an art class assignment. She set down the flags in a maze-like pattern to document whether students and staff would step on them.”

The plan was to keep the flags on the floor for 24 hours to document how people would react, but they were removed after 10 at the request of a fire marshal.

Veterans and others are calling the experiment unpatriotic, while Crane contests that it did its job by starting conversation about how people feel about the American flag.  Your thoughts?

I love random reading. First correct answer gets some sort of prize. Maybe an entry with their name in big letters or something cheesy. Anyway, the challenge and desire to find out something random should be enough. Right? Right?

When the American flag is flown by suspending it overhead, there are several rules governing its posture. One is that the union should be at the top. However, the usual rules about flying it on its own right are a matter of perspective. How should the flag be oriented:
a) in a hallway or corridor or above a street?
b) above an intersection?
c) in an open field with no defined flow of traffic?

Suggested tags: "capture the flag." Be glad that I chose hallway, intersection, and field as my descriptors. I really wanted to express them by their symmetry groups C₂, C₄, and C_(infinity).