New flag

In the margins of turning on my computer this morning, I learned about a whole new flag, a powerful symbol in the US. 

In the context of a piece from Associated Press, brought to me by Microsoft News in Microsoft Edge, about US officials getting into a spin about how best to ban the flying of the Confederate Flag - considered inflammatory from a racial point of view - at defense facilities in and around the US. As far as I can make out, the choice is between a positive ban listing flags that may not be displayed and a negative ban listing flags that may be displayed. The officials think that the President will go into a spin if he gets to hear of any too positive ban.

One of the flags which will be allowed whatever is the POW/MIA flag, the letters standing for prisoner of war/missing in action. A flag which became a powerful symbol in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, which stranded a number of US soldiers and airmen in what was then North Vietnam. A flag which has acquired a ceremonial of its own, a ceremonial which includes being flown on certain special days. See reference 1, from which the snap above is taken.

I have yet to think of anything comparable in this country.

Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League_of_Families_POW/MIA_Flag.