Today is Flag Day, which is no problem for us to celebrate in Brooklin – we have the Flag of the United States all over the place, including lining our roads and on private property. This image of two of the flags lining Reach Road at sundown was taken on Friday (June 12):
Importantly, diagonally across from these two flags is the Brooklin Inn’s “Black Lives Matter” sign, taken at mid-day on the same day:
Respect for the Flag and Black Lives seems to us to be perfectly consistent.
By the way, President Woodrow Wilson officially established June 14 as national Flag Day in 1916. But, the original idea is attributed to Bernard Cigrand, a small-town Wisconsin teacher who advocated an annual national Flag Day in 1885. (Brooklin, Maine)