I am sorry, but I can not wade through 322 lines of poorly typed text. I had a palsy in my right eye about two months ago, and only have the use of one, very weak eye. I can not stand the eyestrain to try to decipher all the broken words, and words that are run together. It gives me headaches to even try.
The VA told me I have to wait four more months, to see if it heals on its own, before they will consider surgery.
Yeah but it's one of those gazillion toothless laws. Enforcement near or equal to zilch. Joe Sixpack just chucks a bad CFL. He wouldn't even know that it's wrong.
There are similar laws on the federal level. Take the flag code, for example. After immigrating to the US one of the things we bought right away was a flag. Naturally after a while it began to disintegrate and we bought a new one. Properly folded the old tattered one and brought it to the post office because that's what the flag code says, for proper disposal. The folks there were totally surprised, didn't know what to do, never had anyone bring a flag ...
"Michael A. Terrell" wrote in news:a- idnScu1amBsw7VnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@earthlink.com:
ANd I have difficulty with typing due to my own situation. Oh well.
On 1-Aug-2008, Joerg wrote: ....
Hi Joerg,
You probably know by now but you can take flags which need to be retired to any Boy Scouts of America Council Office. In your case, that is the Golden Empire Council in Sacramento. The Boy Scouts are one of the few groups empowered to perform US Flag Retirement ceremonies.
Ken Fowler
There is usually a Veteran's group in your area who performs flag retirement ceremonies. Any Veteran's group, or Veteran's Service Office should accept old or damaged flags. We have them several times a year. The old flag is cut, to separate the stars from the stripes, then burnt
Thanks, Ken, that I knew. Worked side by side with a scoutmaster for a long time. But Sacramento is a long drive from here so I asked my wife to drop it off at the local post office which is just a few miles away. Well, that particular post office is up to snuff WRT the flag code since that event :-)
Good idea. We know a lot of people from the Marine Corps and there is VfW in Folsom.
A bit more on the subject:
which includes a photo of the plaque.
More:
Thanks. The memorial is within Vandenburg Air Force Base, where many of the US polar-orbit satellites and other missiles are launched. I'm trying to find out if random visitors are allowed access to the wreck site.
John
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