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Rainbow pride flag replaces POW/MIA flag at veterans memorial plaza — and public outcry is ignited
https://www.theblaze.com/news/ ^ | June 19, 2019 | Dave Urbanski

Posted on 06/27/2019 9:12:01 AM PDT by NKP_Vet

Veteran John "Bill" Williams recalled to WRC-TV that he was in Vietnam just six days before two fellow service members were shot down, declared missing in action, "and they still haven't found their bodies."

Such losses are why the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Plaza in Rockville, Maryland, means so much to Williams.

Image source: WRC-TV video screenshot And it's also why he was upset that the plaza's POW/MIA flag was replaced with an LGBTQ rainbow flag for pride month, the station said.

"I wasn't happy about it at all because the park is supposed to be a veterans park," Williams told WRC. "People died. Now they took it down and put another flag up."

He added to the station, "If they want to put the other flag underneath, they could put it underneath, but the POW flag should be flying there."

What's the background?

It was the first time a rainbow pride flag flew at the Veterans Memorial Plaza, which is outside the Montgomery County executive office building, WRC said.

Montgomery County Council member Evan Glass, the council's first LGBTQ member, helped celebrate the raising of the pride flag last week, the station added.

But WRC noted that the flag switch ignited public outcry — and Glass said things would be smoothed over.

"The flag post was only able to accommodate one flag, and when we learned of that, we are quickly, the county government, is quickly changing it," he told the station. "So we're adding more ringlets so that by tomorrow morning both flags will be raised."

The POW/MIA flag indeed was raised again as the rainbow pride flag continued to fly, County Executive Mark Elrich told WRC.

The rainbow flag will be up during June for pride month, the station said, while the POW/MIA flag will fly permanently.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; maryland; rockville; veterans
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How sickening is this. Unbelievable.
1 posted on 06/27/2019 9:12:01 AM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet

Insulting does not even cover this travesty...


2 posted on 06/27/2019 9:13:23 AM PDT by Nuke From Orbit
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To: NKP_Vet

This is DEAD WRONG ... seems if the “authorities” don’t do something, then someone NOT in authority should do something. That should have been taken down IMMEDIATELY. It would not have lasted long in “my” area of “non-authority”.


3 posted on 06/27/2019 9:14:48 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (We are getting even more than we voted for.)
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To: NKP_Vet

I want these people pushed back into the closet, and I want them banned from working in school systems.

Time for the pendulum to swing the other way.


4 posted on 06/27/2019 9:17:03 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Nuke From Orbit

“Insulting does not even cover this travesty...”

As they meant it to be, while the President is overseas.


5 posted on 06/27/2019 9:17:55 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: NKP_Vet

Absolutely no reason why this should happen....
That flag ahs nothing whatsoever to do with veterans....

GET IT DOWN.............


6 posted on 06/27/2019 9:18:24 AM PDT by JBW1949
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To: NKP_Vet

This flag celebrating deviant sexual practices at a veterans memorial is a blatant insult to military families who have suffered the loss of a loved one in service to their country.

Homosexuals must think with their crotch.


7 posted on 06/27/2019 9:18:50 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: NKP_Vet

tear it down, burn it. it’s protected speech.


8 posted on 06/27/2019 9:20:52 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You damned right!! These abnormal people with abnormal sexual desires must be stopped with their desire to convince all people to accept them as normal. They are abnormal!!


9 posted on 06/27/2019 9:20:55 AM PDT by Demanwideplan
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To: NKP_Vet

They lit up the Obama White House like a Rainbow when Gay Marriage was Federalized. Nothing surprises me anymore.


10 posted on 06/27/2019 9:22:01 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: NKP_Vet

Whose idea was it? Who would think of it?


11 posted on 06/27/2019 9:23:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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"So we're adding more ringlets so that by tomorrow morning both flags will be raised."

Hmmm, and which flag will be on top. The gay one is definitely a bottom.

12 posted on 06/27/2019 9:24:27 AM PDT by glorgau
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Who allowed this? It is an outrage.


13 posted on 06/27/2019 9:25:28 AM PDT by Innovative
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Absolutely disgusting, who is the pig that authorized this?


14 posted on 06/27/2019 9:26:06 AM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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And sodomites kept claiming that they are “politically powerless.” In what universe?


15 posted on 06/27/2019 9:26:06 AM PDT by fwdude
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Sometimes I wonder why I went into the Army to protect the Americans who hate me.

5.56mm


16 posted on 06/27/2019 9:28:28 AM PDT by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP! BUILD THE WALL!)
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Both flags flying side by side eventually.. Priceless.

(as was the sacrifice made by those who died for future generations to live in peace&harmony)

How do you like that ‘peace’ ?

Devolution is no more glamorous than evolution.


17 posted on 06/27/2019 9:30:40 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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“The flag post was only able to accommodate one flag”

Really? Even though the pole right next to it flew two flags? (See 0:26 of the video at https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Pride-Flag-Replaces-POWMIA-Flag-at-Montgomery-County-Executive-Building-511107401.html)


19 posted on 06/27/2019 9:33:06 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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This is not the place for that kind of, “pride”


20 posted on 06/27/2019 9:34:21 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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