Today we had an emergency medical call to a house in a remote mountain community, one where most of the houses are out of sight of the main road. The address was garbled by the radio, which doesn’t always work well among the mountains anyway.
The house was easy to find, though, because of the correct use of the inverted American flag. I’ve never seen that signal used properly before, but this is exactly correct.
Was it inverted because of the immediate emergency, or as a general statement om the tenor of the country?
ReplyDeleteI asked him that question. He was a Ford pickup-truck driving conservative with a lot to say about the crazy state of the country, but that wasn't why he'd inverted the flag.
ReplyDeleteLike I said, I've never seen it done correctly before.
Definitely good to know a few ways to communicate without electronics and the internet!
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