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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    Cool.

    Mine are mostly Third Reich but I also have a VC, NVA, and a Carlist Flag from the Spanish Civil War.

    Yeah, I know they're cheap.
    I have a German Naval flag, a Chinese PRC flag, an Israeli flag, a USSR flag and, one of my favorites, a Jolly Roger. I used to have the Jolly Roger hanging in my living room after my (now ex) wife left, but I've since taken it down after redecorating. All the other flags are in my closet. I should look at hanging them with the others.




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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Rockatansky View Post
    I have a German Naval flag, a Chinese PRC flag, an Israeli flag, a USSR flag and, one of my favorites, a Jolly Roger. I used to have the Jolly Roger hanging in my living room after my (now ex) wife left, but I've since taken it down after redecorating. All the other flags are in my closet. I should look at hanging them with the others.


    That imperial flag is cool.

    I can't hang the swastikas for obvious reasons unless it's in the "man cave".
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    I can't quite bring myself to fly a Nazi flag. I will confess to having once bought an SS officer's hat for my girlfriend of the time to wear while we frolicked in the boudoir.

    Something like this:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Rockatansky View Post
    I can't quite bring myself to fly a Nazi flag. I will confess to having once bought an SS officer's hat for my girlfriend of the time to wear while we frolicked in the boudoir.

    Something like this:
    If thew neighbors can't see it I would and probably will at some point. They are all vintage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    If thew neighbors can't see it I would and probably will at some point. They are all vintage.
    There's a difference between history and worship. I have the PRC and USSR flags for history reasons. If it's presented as a collection of WWII flags, only the most left-wing wingnut would $#@!.

    Another flag I have (or used to have), plus Kamikaze head band, is the Japanese Rising Sun flag. I'll have to dig through my stuff to see if it's in there. I lost a lot of stuff, including the SS hat in my first divorce back in 97 so I don't even know if it's in my footlockers and seabags of stuff or not. The headband was of more recent purchase.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Max Rockatansky View Post
    There's a difference between history and worship. I have the PRC and USSR flags for history reasons. If it's presented as a collection of WWII flags, only the most left-wing wingnut would $#@!.

    Another flag I have (or used to have), plus Kamikaze head band, is the Japanese Rising Sun flag. I'll have to dig through my stuff to see if it's in there. I lost a lot of stuff, including the SS hat in my first divorce back in 97 so I don't even know if it's in my footlockers and seabags of stuff or not. The headband was of more recent purchase.

    Oh, I agre. I just mean if people who don't know you see that it's kind of awkward.

    The Imperial Japanese stuff is cool. I have a patrotic flag signed by a bunch of the guy's freidns and relatives.
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    @Mister D
    What kind of flag and who signed it?

    I haven't had time today, but after reading about "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" flag (I've read the novel a few times, but that was literally decades ago when I was in HS and College) and Heinlein's inspiration for it (the Gonzales flag), I thought about designing one that would look more like a real flag. I lifted my present avatar off the Internet. It's nice, but makes a better sticker than a flag.

    Googling "TANSTAAFL flag" brings up several versions, but none look like the Gonzales flag. Some would be impractical to sew stars onto.


    I'm thinking the same red and black part, but with stars similar to the Alaskan or EU flags and then a gold cannon barrel like the Gonzales flag.








    The barrel I'd choose would be the 24 pounder Naval cannon used on the USS Constitution.



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    It's a small, personal meatball flag that troops would carry to war. I didn't know of that tradition until I saw this flag. I can't read Japanese but it has slogans like "boiling blood!" on it. I was thinking of asking the sushi guy but that might be weird.

    The naval gun looks best, IMHO.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister D View Post
    It's a small, personal meatball flag that troops would carry to war. I didn't know of that tradition until I saw this flag. I can't read Japanese but it has slogans like "boiling blood!" on it. I was thinking of asking the sushi guy but that might be weird.

    The naval gun looks best, IMHO.
    Go for it! That's a sweet piece of history and the more you know about it, the better. Well worth preserving.

    Ask the Sushi guy. OTOH, he could be Korean or Chinese.

    As a (currently) amateur welder (my eventual retirement job), one project I have in mind is to build a flag pole. I'm thinking about 15 feet, but in the form of a yardarm.

    I'd fly the US flag on the top and whatever suited my mood underneath. My current thinking is to either make or have made a TANSTAAFL flag.



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    My Great Grandfather was in WWI and WWII in the South Pacific, career navy guy. I've got his flag with red and white stripes and 13 stars around an anchor. I need to have it cleaned so I can fly in on 4th of July. It got really dusty and moldy in my Dad's garage for decades.

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