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I'm curious if anyone else has the same kind of flag etiquette that the US does
Like if there's any other countries where burning is the only acceptable method of disposal?
Not to get political.. buy why wouldn't just washing it and generally treating it respectfully be good enough (Like, why waste a perfectly nice looking flag?)
Intentionally throwing one's national flag on the ground and stomping on it... that's one thing. But just dropping it by mistake? People make mistakes, it shouldn't be considered bloody treason :p
Then again, I'm one of those people who avoids ever addressing 'someone of station' as 'Your Grace', 'Your Honour', 'Your Highness', etc. If I were ever in the situation of being expected to do so, I'd be very uncomfortable and would try to get away with "Sir" or "Madam". I don't believe anyone deserves such obsequious subservience. Guess I'd be dead if I'd been born a few hundred years ago.
Nowhere in the US Flag Code does it say to burn the flag if it touches the ground. The code says separately that you shouldn't let it touch the ground, and that if it is too damaged for display it is to be disposed of by burning. Not that accidentally touching the ground automatically necessitates burning.
Thanks for clarifying (and I should've looked it up myself! My bad for being lazy).
That sounds like a sane policy.