Hoffman Center disrespects national flag etiquette

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As a Marine Corps Vietnam veteran and the son of a WWII Army intelligence officer and a Women’s AirForce Service Pilot Memorial Day has a special significance to me. For the past few years every Memorial Day the faded dingy flags in front of the Post Office and Hoffman Center stood in contrast to the bright vibrant flags the city lines the street with.

This year when I came down Laneda towards the Hoffman Center I was shocked to see a large Gay Pride flag flying beneath the weathered and smaller Stars and Stripes.

I have good friends, clients, and relatives who are gay, and others who have switched sides. It might not be my “cup of tea”, but everyone these days has their right to choose as they please. I certainly respect that. To blatantly display a brighter, larger flag of any kind under our flag disregards its patriotic meaning, let alone national flag etiquette. The Hoffman Center is a community family center for the arts and as such should be gender neutral. My feeling is that displaying that flag in any form there is wrong. To display it there larger and brighter is unpatriotic and disrespectful.

Tom McCallum