It was placed next to the American flag, then the guy I work under moved it out of the way, next to some stairs and behind a couch so that no one would notice it.
Then they sent out an officer to tell the lady who just moved it back next to the other flags that it couldn't be there because it was taller than the American flag and that's illegal.
In the office, there was a lot of discussion about how it's gonna be defaced/destroyed/go missing because we got a lot of rednecks here. We did have a few offended folks come up and ask why the hell it was out there.
Anyway, I countered with the only Confederate flag that mattered was the big white one, and just interrupted with "big white flag" the next few times he opened his mouth until the subject shifted.
(not that being a southerner is really an excuse but that just putts the cherry of absurdity on this whole thing. man is faking a heritage of shit he doesn't even have in the first place)
But, yeah, we'll see if that flag's still standing at the end of the week. It's going in some closet when the month is over, but the captain's like "And the bad part is that it'll be flying all month next month."
They had me look up the number of LGBT veterans (all I could find was a thing from the 2000 census, which. y2k attitudes towards homosexuality, folks were deffo heavily closeted then.) and ended up with about 4%
a good friend of mine was also closeted queer in the forces in the early 2000s. she did know, but kept her mouth closed, got discharged, and has since settled with her wife in new england
because their dicks are still shorter than the flagdidn't know it at the time, but hey
they obliquely threatened me with dadt anyway