Cinco de Mayo!

What's Wrong with this picture?

In the United States we respect all cultures and celebrations. Cinco de Mayo is the celebration of 4,000 Mexican soldiers smashing the French and traitor Mexican army of 8,000 at Puebla, Mexico, 100 miles east of Mexico City on the morning of May 5, 1862. Hence the celebration. People are mis-informed that it's Mexican Independence Day; when in fact Mexico declared its independence from mother Spain on midnight, the 15th of September, 1810. All in all, it's a day to celebrate...no matter what culture background you come from.

Now back to the Photograph. I happened to looking out the window from work and saw this flying in the air. A few of my co-workers were very upset at what we see above, especially working at an "ALL AMERICAN" automobile dealership. I'm not going to name the business, but we did give them a friendly call about flag etiquette. About five minutes later it was taken down. I was able to take a shot of it before they made the change.

Here are some rules of flag etiquette from The Besty Ross Homepage:
When flags of two or more nations are displayed, they are to be flown from separate staffs of the same height. The flags should be of approximately equal size. International usage forbids the display of the flag of one nation above that of another nation in time of peace. The order of precedence for flags generally is National flags (US first, then others in alphabetical order in English), State (host state first, then others in the order of admission) and territories (Washington DC, Puerto Rico, etc.), Military (in order of establishment: Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard), then other.

I can only imagine the result if this were to be flown in a very patriotic city or town. It would be nasty!

This innocent display doesn't bother me much because it was a innocent mistake. The business owner was informed and made a quick adjustment. Although if this display was done on purpose to make a statement, then it would really bother me. We should respect our own country and other countries with equal respect; hence the reason why each country's flag should be flown on it's one pole at Equal level height.
A little history and some facts in this post.
Drink a shot tequila and down a few Coronas. Ole!

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