“This wasn’t just “small’ Flags, some were full size on the pole, American Flags. Not unlike the size and the type, the color guard uses.”
If we’re talking about a bunch of full-sized flags being stuffed into garbage cans, then that changes things quite a bit, of course- I just haven’t seen any of those pictures yet. If that’s what was going on, then this story certainly has much better legs than previously reported.
Granted, there were far more small ones than the full size ones.