Friday, May 1, 2026

Gaffe

 A bit of a mishap with the Union Jack Flag, yesterday. During a visit to Arlington

National cemetery, it was flown upside down, a signal of distress!!

                                                                     


Looking at the left half of the flag, the white is more pronounced on the bottom...

The proper flag:
                                                                                

The flag is actually a superposition of three flags, and is meant to symbolize the

three countries that make up Great Britian: Scotland, England_Wales and Ireland.

                                                                              

source: Wikipedia

Trying hard not to make a gaffe of my own: President Trump has since announced he

would lift the tariffs on whiskeys from Scotland, allowing the development of an integrated

market!!

And Canada is something of an outlier on the flag question, with the Union Jack not

appearing on the national flag...