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  • 2019-06-28 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Pride Flag Replace a POW/MIA Flag at Veterans Memorial Plaza? (ro)
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  • On June 10, 2019, a rainbow flag was raised at Veterans Memorial Plaza in Rockville, Maryland, in honor of Pride Month. In flying that flag, Montgomery County Council officials had to temporarily remove another flag, a POW/MIA flag, as the flag pole was not equipped to simultaneously hold multiple flags. NBC Washington reported of the subject that: Montgomery County Councilman Evan Glass said at the time that once officials learned the flag pole couldn't accommodate both flags, they quickly worked on a solution: The flag post was only able to accommodate one flag, and when we learned of that, we are quickly, the county government, is quickly changing it. So we’re adding more ringlets so that by tomorrow morning both flags will be raised. The following day, the Montgomery County government rectified the situation by adding more ringlets to the flag pole so that the pride flag could be flown during Pride Month without replacing any of the other flags. The county said in a statement on the issue that: More than a week after this issue was rectified, the website The Blaze published an article headlined Rainbow pride flag replaces POW/MIA flag at veterans memorial plaza — and public outcry is ignited. But the piece didn't disclose the POW/MIA flag was still being flown until its penultimate sentence. This article was also aggregated on conservative websites such as JoeMiller.us, True Pundit, and 4 Conservative. On June 17, the Twitter account Educating Liberals posted the following tweet claiming that the a pride flag had replaced the POW/MIA flag. The tweet did not mention that the POW/MIA flag was flying at the time it was posted: In short, a POW/MIA flag was temporarily removed on June 10, 2019, to make room for a rainbow flag in celebration of Pride Month, as the flag poles were not equipped to carry multiple flags. The POW/MIA flag was only down for a day, however, as city officials added additional ringlets to the pole so that the rainbow flag could be flown without replacing any of the other flags at the Veterans Memorial Plaza. The rainbow flag will be taken down at the end of Pride Month. The POW/MIA flag will remain in place. (en)
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