You can buy these flags on Amazon. The fringe means nothing other than an extravagant decoration of the standard US flag. These posts trying to read something into a decorative fringe just make me lol. Search for fringed US flag on any shopping site and you'll find lots of options to purchase. Hell, half the flags in my neighborhood are fringed flags.
I can also buy a Norwegian flag on Amazon. Does that mean its just a regular USA flag with colors arranged in a different pattern for decoration or is it different because it is Norwegian?
I see your pov, but just consider this. In the military we have very strict rules for the colors. Not everyone in the military really cares that much about it, but strict rules do exist. There are many other ways a flag could be decorated, just look at the thin blue line. But the gold fringe is the only decoration we are authorized (and sometimes required) to use.
That being said, there are flags we use that have the fringe and some that don’t. I won’t even pretend to tell you what the difference is, but I will tell you that we would never carry anything other than the national standard, with or without gold fringe.what this tells me is that there was/is a reason for the gold fringe. Maybe it truly was pure decoration. But why did we need to decorate it in the first place? Why aren’t we allowed to decorate it in any other way? Just something to ponder.
You can buy these flags on Amazon. The fringe means nothing other than an extravagant decoration of the standard US flag. These posts trying to read something into a decorative fringe just make me lol. Search for fringed US flag on any shopping site and you'll find lots of options to purchase. Hell, half the flags in my neighborhood are fringed flags.
Therefore it has no meaning?
Bingo. It's just decoration that may or may not be used by whoever's buying the flags that day. Zero symbolic meaning, no matter how hard we try.
Why does not anyone else decorate any other flag in this manner?
"anyone else" - who? I have seen this sort of fringe on many types of flags, like state flags or flags for other countries. It's decoration.
I can also buy a Norwegian flag on Amazon. Does that mean its just a regular USA flag with colors arranged in a different pattern for decoration or is it different because it is Norwegian?
I see your pov, but just consider this. In the military we have very strict rules for the colors. Not everyone in the military really cares that much about it, but strict rules do exist. There are many other ways a flag could be decorated, just look at the thin blue line. But the gold fringe is the only decoration we are authorized (and sometimes required) to use.
That being said, there are flags we use that have the fringe and some that don’t. I won’t even pretend to tell you what the difference is, but I will tell you that we would never carry anything other than the national standard, with or without gold fringe.what this tells me is that there was/is a reason for the gold fringe. Maybe it truly was pure decoration. But why did we need to decorate it in the first place? Why aren’t we allowed to decorate it in any other way? Just something to ponder.