[nfb-talk] Fw: [acb-l] Fwd: [CCB-L] H.R.4169, American BrailleFlag Memorial Act

[T. Joseph Carter]

"Can you pull the flag down off the pole so that I can feel it?"

That sounds awfully silly.  A US veteran already knows what the flag looks
like.  The rest of us are, by the very nature of our blindness, considered
so deeply 4F that we're probably 5F.

Like I said, this is a token that largely doesn't have much to do with us.

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:13:42AM -0500, Wm. Ritchhart wrote:
> Also, many, (most), American flags are now made in China.  My guess is
> that these cheap Chinese made flags are the ones that cannot be
> distinguished by touch.
> 
> I own a flag that was flown over the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial.  It is in
> a special wrapper identifying it.  So I cannot determine if it is one
> that can be distinguished tactually.  
> 
> Still, all that needs to occur is for the Army or U.S. Department of the
> Interior to purchase higher quality American flags for Arlington
> National Cemetery.  They could do that without an act of Congress.
> There is a company in Georgia or Alabama that makes high quality
> American flags.  The problem would be solved.  Of course an American
> made flag would cost more.  
> 
> 
> William