[maine yankee]

I carry an inexpensive 3 by 5 flag in my truck.

When I see a flag in need of replacement, I’ll walk up to the house with a flag behind my back or in a paper bag.

“I can’t help but notice your flag is a bit tattered.”

I wait a second or two for them to start to formulate a responce. I then say;

This flag is a gift. May I replace the one you have and dispose of the other ?”

I’ve met a lot of great people this way.

[Hot Tabasco]

There's a new single gal in my subdivision with a 20' flagpole whose flag was in real tatters and flapping around because the rope was even broken. My neighbor and I both had tried to contact her about it but she was never home. Finally my neighbor saw her and offered to remove it with my help and she was more than willing to allow us. She felt really bad about it but didn't know how to get the flag down because the rope was jammed in the upper pulley. We took care of it and my neighbor dropped the flag off at a VFW post.........

Most of the time all one has to do is ask..........

[Ro_Thunder]

I drove past a business in Texas (south of the Houston area) who was flying the Texas flag like this:

I pulled uturn, got the number of the business, and left them a message (it was before 6 AM, after all, they weren't open yet) telling them to please fly the flag correctly, that much blood was spilled for Texas, and that the easiest way to remember is the star points up, or that the red is the blood on the ground, looking up at the white of the sky. Whoever heard the message had it fixed that day.

[dusttoyou]

That’s a nice way!