Is This a Disgrace?

According to the Tech Times, Vanessa Hick who served in the military and has a husband who is currently serving in the military, is accused of being disgraceful to an American flag because she took a photo of her husband holding her sleeping baby lying on a draped American flag. 

"I am very well aware of our U.S. Flag Code," she says. "I also know exactly what desecration of a flag is. It's when you pull into ports and you see protesters with our flag and have spray painted horrible things on it. It's when you watch the news and you see other countries burning our flags, and you are a young Quartermaster scared because you know you are just a few nautical miles from that exact country."

It has been said that the photo is "disrespectful, rude, tacky, disgusting, and against the U.S. Flag Code."

"This flag is a symbol of everything my son died for many years ago," says an anonymous commenter.  "It was of the utmost honor to have a flag laid upon your coffin as my son did. That honor is taken away when disrespectful photographers throw our flag code out the window."

Yet some people have agreed with hicks that all the comments on the flag could be considered cyber bulling. Hicks owns the picture and people need to respect that.

I personal think the picture is respectful and sends a beautiful message, however we do have to follow the flag code which states that the flag should never touch anything beneath it, it should never be used as apparel, bedding, or drapery, and should never be used as a receptacle for receiving, holding, carrying, or delivering anything.

To me, this also means that American flag bikinis can be seen as a disgrace to the flag. But the fact that the code states that the flag shouldn't be used to carry or hold anything does mean that Venessa Hick did go against the flag code.

-Haley Vannatter