[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..........

[TYVets]

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.

I have one uncle that ran into trouble while hoisting the flag because of problem with the rope.

One morning during World War II he was to raise the flag at a large formation of Marines, complete with a band and one full bird colonel.

The band started to play, but the rope was twisted, tangled or knotted. It was a time consuming job for my uncle to straighten out the problem with the rope, but the band played on.

Finally the band director realized there was a problem, so he slowed the tempo . The longer my uncle worked on the rope, the slower the music. Finally it got down to one note at a time. Then the number of seconds between notes got longer and longer as my uncle worked feverishly.

At last my uncle was able to hoist the flag and as it reached the top of the flag pole, the the band played the last note.

Even today when he tells the story, he says "you talk about working under pressure, that was it."