FLAG: Take down at your own risk

Old Glory, long may this one wave. Oh, here we go again, the possibility of observing bureaucratic malfeasance in action. I refer to the chance that the American flag could be torn down from its lofty perch on a forest service tree top, high above Fourth of July summit, along Interstate 90. It hints of some 90-day wonder that has just finished reading the book and deduced that the flag is desecrating his hallowed forest service domain.

I fully realize no one wants a dearth of sordid displays cluttering up our public lands, but this flag, I believe, should be an exception to the rule. Anyone who would take the time to go and view it, flying in its majestic glory, would not hesitate to agree and be proud to be an American. Someone, bless his patriotic soul, risked life and limb to place the flag in its hopefully permanent home. The details, so far, involved in trying to tear it down appear to be an extremely difficult, if not an impossible, manly task. Hooray!

However, should they succeed, I hope the sordid act will raise a national furor like the “forestry circus” has never experienced before.

I suggest that President Obama be sent a photograph and the details of its placement, with the notice that one of his stewards wants to unilaterally tear it down. Then if the president is a truly loyal, patriotic American he would issue an executive order that he is so adapt at doing in controversial issues, mandating that the flag remain on its lofty, proud perch for all to see and admire.

JAMES GABOURY

Dalton Gardens