Posted on 06/21/2014 1:05:31 PM PDT by olepap
Its time to fly the flag, my brothers and sisters. The wickedness is fully upon us. Fly that American Flag upside down. Fly the Gadsden flag. Fly your Palmetto or Lone Star Flag. We are going to need to rely on each other in the years ahead.
Trying to figure out the best flag to fly from my boat. the US Ensign, of course, and the Big Dipper and North Star; but what other, banner?
I have considered the Gadsden flag - too common and obviously identified with certain groups. I want to be low key but emphatic and maybe provoke someone to ask questions.
The Bonnie Blue flags makes the right statement - but, on a boat, it looks too much like a Navy Commodore’s flag.
The Confederate battle flag or navy jack? - too belligerent and identified with racism (No matter what Southrons say) and not very appropriate at latitude 52N.
Considering the Stars and Bars (First flag of the Confederacy)- a stronger statement than the Bonnie Blue flag, but again, perhaps I am too far North.
Possibly the Green Mountain boys flag (I am originally from Vermont) But no. No one would recognize it here in the Northwest.
Come and Take It?
Culpepper?
Pine Tree?
I noticed a 48 star US Ensign on on a boat up here. Very subtle. Perhaps too much so.
I am open to suggestions.
That’s what I’ve got flying.
:-)
I live on a sailboat. To me the pirate flag only means one of two things:
1. I am an irresponsible jerk who will get drunk, make a lot of noise and possibly endanger your vessel. Do not moor near this boat or you will not get any sleep.
2. I have children under the age of ten who make my decisions for me.
Good luck deciding on a flag.
If it is 5X8, it is a Confederate Naval Jack. The battle flag is square - 1X1 aspect ratio. IIRC
But very few people know the difference and they will get the message.
Comment not intended to disparage, FRiend. Just my experience sailing around the North Pacific. d;^)
In the year and a half that it's been flying not one person, friend, neighbor or stranger, has asked me about it. Maybe they sense that it's a can of worms best left alone. lol
You’ve got the rattlesnake Naval Jack to consider. Fly it! Let the world know you will fight. If that’s too much for you, you can always fly the rainbow flag.
Rainbow flag.... oh good grief thatth tho GAY.
I’ve been flying the Gadsden flag on holidays since the illegal Kenyan was reelected. That red, white & blue flag and the land it represented has been captured by a socialist ideology foreign to the US Constitution. Patriots arise, we must cast out the invaders.
Going to fly the Rebel flag...we need a Betsy Ross to design a new flag for the Conservative States of America.
...for which is stood.
you are correct , but in one regard :
Rectangular CBF’s were flown in the western theater quite often . NBF had his own version , Joe Johnson also authorized it’s use .
In the ANV the perfectly square forms were the CBF
do you know that there were authorized versions of the CBF within the Army of Northern Virginia which were trimmed in orange and pink ? I kid you not .
I have such a 2nd Ver ANV CBF that’s a beauty . Had it made by one of America’s greatest historic replica flag makers , out of heavy silk .
Drive down any road in Texas and you will see more solo Texas flags being flown than solo US or US and Texas flags. And increasingly the Come and Take it flag under the Texas flag, not to mention the de Zavala flag.
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