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Flag displays from around the globe. Our flags are used at lots of great addresses, like yours. I've always been struck by the proud photos our customers send us showing the ways they use our products. After getting them for so many years I resolved to start collecting them. If you want to share what you've done with our flags, please go to our web site http://www.theflagguys.com, and send us an e mail. Please low res jpegs only!! For the web, 75K is plenty. That would be 75000 file size. Digital cameras now take even 3 MEG file sizes. That is way too much for the internet and I have to reduce them. Set your camera on LOW Resolution
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Al Cavalari (theflagguys) > Check out the use this guy from Virginia came up with for one of our WWII Bronze gravemerkers. If you like his work, feel free to e mail him at machinists_tribute@yahoo.com The WWII bronze marker he got from us is found on http://flagguys.com/gmarker.html He writes:
"I'm e-mailing to ask you some important questions regarding displaying a funeral/burial flag. 
     On Pearl Harbor Day in 2001, my grandfather passed away.  He was an Army soldier during WWII.  My father, of course was given the flag.  He himself is a Vietnam Veteran and participates yearly in the "Rolling Thunder" motorcycle parade. If you are not familiar, it involves 500,000 motorcyclists rolling through DC every Memorial Day weekend in honor of Veterans and especially POW/MIA's.  My father commented once on considering taking my grandfathers flag with him on the ride....
Al Cavalari (theflagguys) > I am a machinist.  I am planning on making a chromed aluminum flag case for the burial flag of my grandfather to fit onto my father's motorcycle.  It will be located where the passengers backrest normally is.  I am making brackets and mounting rods so that the unseen back side of the flag case will double as a backrest as well.  I am planning on sealing every seam with an "O" ring material from the inside so as not to be visible.  It will have a plexiglass front for viewing and inboard mounted LED's for illumination @ night.   I am also planning on engraving an "In Memory" section on the 25" leg of the case; probably his name, rank, DOB and DOD.  Needless to say, it will be an awesome case, but my main concerns are as follows....
Al Cavalari (theflagguys) > ....
1.  Is the overall idea disrespectful?
2.  Is it disrespectful to display the funeral flag in the case with the point facing downward since only part of the union is visible?  (This is my best mounting option)
3.  Is there some sort of taboo about having a flag in a metal case?
4.  Is the lighting disrespectful?  (Thought about the rule of never leaving a flag @ night unless lit.)....
Al Cavalari (theflagguys) > I got such a kick out of this guy's project. I consulted with him at length as to the flag etiquette questions. The information is on our flag etiquette page http://flagguys.com/etiq.html Then he filled me in along the way about the construction methods. There is no instruction manual on how to make something like this. I am always impressed with craftsnamship and with the desire to get it right. This guy wanted to get it right all around...
Al Cavalari (theflagguys) > He was concerned with doing it honorably and doing it it skillfully. I think in the end he gave grandpa a wonderful tribute and a heck of a ride.
Al Cavalari (theflagguys) > I forget where this home is or who sent it. For years I was not organized in collecting the photos folks send in. But it is a nice shot of a Hardee's flag and a New Orleans Grays flag found on http://www.flagguys.com/hist.html
Al Cavalari (theflagguys) > Red Rose Ranch in Inyokern CA
Al Cavalari (theflagguys) > Two great shots from Florida
Al Cavalari (theflagguys) > A fine, well thought out and nicely balanced display. Great use of the space, very tasteful
Check out the use this guy from Virginia came up with for one of our WWII Bronze gravemerkers. If you like his work, feel free to e mail him at machinists_tribute@yahoo.com The WWII bronze marker he got from us is found onhttp://flagguys.com/gmarker.html He writes:
"I'm e-mailing to ask you some important questions regarding displaying a funeral/burial flag.
On Pearl Harbor Day in 2001, my grandfather passed away. He was an Army soldier during WWII. My father, of course was given the flag. He himself is a Vietnam Veteran and participates yearly in the "Rolling Thunder" motorcycle parade. If you are not familiar, it involves 500,000 motorcyclists rolling through DC every Memorial Day weekend in honor of Veterans and especially POW/MIA's. My father commented once on considering taking my grandfathers flag with him on the ride....
 > Check out the use this guy from Virginia came up with for one of our WWII Bronze gravemerkers. If you like his work, feel free to e mail him at machinists_tribute@yahoo.com The WWII bronze marker he got from us is found on http://flagguys.com/gmarker.html He writes:
"I'm e-mailing to ask you some important questions regarding displaying a funeral/burial flag. 
     On Pearl Harbor Day in 2001, my grandfather passed away.  He was an Army soldier during WWII.  My father, of course was given the flag.  He himself is a Vietnam Veteran and participates yearly in the "Rolling Thunder" motorcycle parade. If you are not familiar, it involves 500,000 motorcyclists rolling through DC every Memorial Day weekend in honor of Veterans and especially POW/MIA's.  My father commented once on considering taking my grandfathers flag with him on the ride....
Check out the use this guy from Virginia came up with for one of our WWII Bronze gravemerkers. If you like his work, feel free to e mail him at machinists_tribute@yahoo.com The WWII bronze marker he got from us is found onhttp://flagguys.com/gmarker.html He writes:
"I'm e-mailing to ask you some important questions regarding displaying a funeral/burial flag.
On Pearl Harbor Day in 2001, my grandfather passed away. He was an Army soldier during WWII. My father, of course was given the flag. He himself is a Vietnam Veteran and participates yearly in the "Rolling Thunder" motorcycle parade. If you are not familiar, it involves 500,000 motorcyclists rolling through DC every Memorial Day weekend in honor of Veterans and especially POW/MIA's. My father commented once on considering taking my grandfathers flag with him on the ride....
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