"May this flag never fly again"

[riverwalker]

Woman finds a cache of war souvenirs hidden in an old house including a captured Nazi flag signed by the American soldiers who captured it. Twitter busy researching them. Fascinating story.

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[Harker]

1. I was thinking the same thing

about the "Trump 2020 - No more bullshit" flags that desecrate the environment here about.

[wnylib]

24. I was expecting to see one of

those Trump flags with his ugly face plastered over the stars and stripes. May that one never fly again, either, desecrating Old Glory.

[Harker]

30. I'm resigned to our upstate area being festooned

til the flags are in appropriately metaphorical tatters.

[wnylib]

31. My sympathies.

I've been pretty much spared that ugly scenery in my area, and have seen them mostly in videos of trumpist demonstrations.

[chowder66]

2. She found the connection to the house and is reaching out to the relatives. nt

[Karadeniz]

3. Wow! That was some find!

[judesedit]

4. Aside from finding and telling the families, that should be in a museum for many to see

[llmart]

5. Maybe the holocaust museum in D.C.

This is an amazing story so far. Wonder if the homeowner has found a history of the house also. Sometimes the prior owners have done some of the research.

[judesedit]

12. Yes. Or they could share it with various subject related museums

The house may have been used as an inn or meeting place for the soldiers. I know they borrowed peoples houses in strategic areas for that purpose during earlier wars. I lived in a large, older house in Medford, NJ that was rumored to be just that. It was across the road from a mill on a stream. I went to see it again a couple of years ago, but it had burned down. Christopher Mill is still there, though. So much history that is has not yet been discovered. Very interesting and exciting. I hope the families are found and we learn the history of that flag. My mom and dad were both WWII veterans.

[llmart]

29. Wow. Both of your parents served?

That's an amazing story in itself. Did they meet in service?

[COL Mustard]

6. I Would Suggest The New National Museum Of The US Army

Since the 385th Infantry Regiment has been deactivated.

https://www.thenmusa.org

[Lady Freedom Returns]

18. I was thinking the same thing.

That must have some stories behind it. It should be in the museum.

[gratuitous]

9. Perhaps in the Trump Presidential Library?

In the "Stick It Up Your Bum" section devoted to the White Supremacists who were so prominent during the Trump years?

[LuvNewcastle]

7. My first thought was that she could auction it off,

but I guess that belongs in a museum. The Smithsonian should buy that if she needs the money and isn't able to just donate the stuff.

[LuvNewcastle]

8. Another great museum is the WWII museum in New Orleans.

That is a huge, wonderful museum full of interesting artifacts from the war.

[Dem2theMax]

10. I have a Rising Sun flag that my dad brought home from World War II.

Signatures all over it. I've tried to do some research to see if I could find any of them. No luck. I do want to donate it to the World War II Museum in New Orleans.

[Best_man23]

14. If the signatures are Marines

Another place to consider is the Marine Corps Museum in Quantico, VA.

[Dem2theMax]

22. Dad was 'boots on the ground,' Army.

He somehow has a tie to this story. My dad was a medical technician!

I can't for the life of me remember the story on the flag. I do know that my dad went into Japan after the surrender. He spent most of the war in Papua New Guinea and islands around there.

[onethatcares]

25. he may have know my FIL

"Shorty Palmer"

Same theater of operation, same point in history.

If his name is on it, LMK, with many thanks.

[Dem2theMax]

26. I have to dig it out. It's buried in the back of a very large closet.

I do know that everyone who signed it also signed their home town and state. I will definitely look for it in the next day or so, and I will let you know what I find.
I imagine it's a bit wrinkled, but I will take a picture of it and post it.

[onethatcares]

27. my friend, there would be no hurry

if you do take it out someday that's fine with me, if you don't well let's say, that's fine with me too.

May you have a good holiday season, try to keep it all year long.

Peace to you and yours from me and mine.

[Dem2theMax]

28. Thank you so much. The same to you!

And now I'm curious, so I am going to get the flag out. It will give me something to do. I did go peek in the closet, and it will take a bit of work. The flag is in one of two places.

I've been meaning to do this for some time because I really do want to donate the flag. There is no one in the family to pass it down to. I'm it. So this is good motivation.

Happy holidays to you and your family. And yes, may peace surround us all.

[uponit7771]

11. Sadly a semblance of it did fly but with the letters MAGA on it, I pray we can demonize them as well

... as history has demonized the NAZI party

[Mr.Bill]

13. When I saw the thread title

I was thinking it was about the confederate flag.

[murielm99]

15. Same here.

[keithbvadu2]

16. Trumpsters still fly it.

[yuiyoshida]

17. "It belongs in a museum"

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[MustLoveBeagles]

21. +1

[iluvtennis]

19. Some other "goodies" were underneath the flag

Dr. Jacqueline Antonovich@jackiantonovich·Dec 23
@jackiantonovich
Underneath the flag was a little treasure of odds and ends.

All of this seems to belong to a Sergeant Dean McKittrick of Catasauqua, PA. Did he live in this house? Or did the previous owners know this person? It’s a very cool mystery!

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[coti]

20. Good anti-fascist New Englanders nt

[JGug1]

23. May This Flag Never Fly Again

Problem is that it already does. There are minor differences. It now says MAGA and is red on white. Different symbols on flag, same goal.