Just a comment...I work on a AF base that has around sixty-odd outdoor flags, and there's another 30 small US flags which appear once a week. It is a significant amount of time used to put these up and down each day. The 50 state flags? They go up each time some senator or congressman visits. Everytime they rip? Mark it down for $100 to get the replacement flag. I'm patriotic but lets get realistic....you just need one flag on a base or in a community. This flag-craze...ends up costing time and money. People ought to think about this before they go hog-wild and toss up a dozen flag poles.