I’m all for fireworks on the Fourth of July to celebrate American independence. However, when you are setting them off on the July 3rd and doing so illegally (.pdf), I’m not completely sure you’re actually celebrating the holiday but instead using the holiday as an excuse to do something you wouldn’t do the rest of the year.
And while we’re on the subject, I was once asked why I don’t fly a flag at my house. Simple, I believe that if you’re going to do it you should do it correctly and I will not leave a flag out overnight if it’s not lit. So, since I have no way of lighting a flag at night at this time, nor do I have the inclination to put out a flag each morning and take it down each night I don’t fly one.
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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One Reply to “30 Posts in 30 Days #3: Patriotism as an excuse”
THANK YOU! One of my biggest pet peeves is that folks don’t know (or don’t care) that there is a code for how our flag should be displayed. It is most unpatriotic to fly the flag at night without proper lighting. It is just as (or even more) unpatriotic to fly a flag that is tattered at the edges. And don’t even get me started on folks who then take that old flag and just trash it.
I’m all for fireworks on the Fourth of July to celebrate American independence. However, when you are setting them off on the July 3rd and doing so illegally (.pdf), I’m not completely sure you’re actually celebrating the holiday but instead using the holiday as an excuse to do something you wouldn’t do the rest of the year.
THANK YOU! One of my biggest pet peeves is that folks don’t know (or don’t care) that there is a code for how our flag should be displayed. It is most unpatriotic to fly the flag at night without proper lighting. It is just as (or even more) unpatriotic to fly a flag that is tattered at the edges. And don’t even get me started on folks who then take that old flag and just trash it.