Pride flag replaces military flags at Fort Wayne VA hospital

wane.com ^ | June 13, 2018

[lowbridge]

The five flag poles that line the entrance sidewalk to the VA Northern Indiana Health Care System at 2121 Lake Ave. typically fly flags of the country's five branches of military:  Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard.

On Tuesday, through, those flags were taken down and just one was flown in their place: an LGBT pride flag.

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The VA Northern Indiana Healthcare System issued the following statement:

"Logistically, we could not add a flag without removing a flag from the poles outside our VA. Rather than single out one military branch's flag to be temporarily replaced with the LGBT flag, we chose to remove all of them for one day in order to show our dedication to serving all Veterans equally."

[dfwgator]

If God doesn’t punish this country, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

[rktman]

Hmmm. So, once again the 2-4% of the population gets it’s way. Pretty sad.

[BenLurkin]

This can’t be real

[bert]

[Professional]

While I hate it, let it be a message to the sane people in society that evil is marching at us and prepared to destroy us.

[AppyPappy]

You mean the flag that displays God’s promise to the world not to destroy it?

[fwdude]

I really wonder if they had proper clearance to do this. Nothing like p***ing off the military.

[robroys woman]

What are they so proud of?

[Vendome]

Why not raise the flag of Black Power to celebrate more social diversity....?

[Robert DeLong]

to serving all Veterans equally.

Then there was no need to replace the flags, as you limited it to just those who identify with Gay Pride, and thus failed in your attempt to serve all veterans.

[central_va]

Burn that damn fag flag.

[Leaning Right]

> This can’t be real <

I can’t wait for Trump to take office and put an end to all this nonsense. Oh, wait. Never mind.

[ronniesgal]

whaat? that’s nuts, and so wrong.

[Doogle]

...that’s next week...

[Antoninus]

I’m not generally in favor of flag burning, but I’d burn that flag in a heartbeat.

[Doogle]

...it may have been a local thing or
the media would have been harping on it since yesterdays

[TADSLOS]

This can’t be real

Why not? DoD is down with it.

DoD Pride

Puke.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

It’s a disgrace.

Fire whoever is running that VA facility.

Our military doesn’t exist, fight and die to turn the nation into Cornholistan.

[TADSLOS]

Exactly.