PLUS>>>> While we are on a rant: What in the world are all of these dweebs with flag lapel pins doing??? They are wearing American Flag lapel pins with something placed upon the flag??? STOP PUTTING EMBLEMS ON THE AMERICAN FLAG!! There is nothing to be added to the flag - NOTHING - NADA - ZIP! On TV you can see something on the flag lapel pins but it is indistinguishable as to what they are adding. I do recall seeing a flag pin with a Secret Service emblem and I believe the Republican Party elephant symbol... maybe. At any rate our national flag should never have anything placed upon it - EVER!
To go along with your post, sort of, Neil Armstrong never signed his name across the flag on his space suit. He had too much respect for what it stood for. Also, shortly after returning from Apollo 13, Jim Lovell and his wife along with Jack Swigert went to a production of “Hair”. They all got up and left when the production brought out the flag and treated it badly. Swingers later said that when he flew in space he represented that flag. Like Armstrong and Lovell, he has too much respect for it.