I feel like this is a ridiculous question...

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by ajs8207

My question is about the American flag. I want to get them on my jersey. They come in white and gold borders. Everyone I have seen has the gold border one, but the white one just seems to go better. Should I get gold like everyone else, get white, or does it really not matter at all.

I guess that the border on the patch does matter: Military flag patches are often trimmed with gold borders. This is in imitation of the gold-fringed flag, also known as the U.S. military flag. According to an executive order signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959, the gold-fringed flag, and, by extension, patch-sized replicas, are to be used exclusively by the armed forces.

Also, I guess that the fact that a patch is worn matters: United States Flag Code 176(j): No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform. However, a flag patch may be affixed to the uniform of military personnel, firemen, policemen, and members of patriotic organizations.

Disclosure: I did not have the privilege of serving my country, but my late father served as a United States Army Staff Sergeant during World War II, served two years overseas in Africa and Italy, participated in the Battle of Rome Arno, and I proudly display the flag that draped his coffin in my home. I proudly display my flag on all national holidays, and whenever a Connecticut soldier, sailor, Marine, or airman, is killed in Iraq, or Afghanistan, 43 times in the past five and a half years. I also proudly wear a flag patch on my lab coat at work, I'm a chemist, and I display a flag on my desktop on both my lab, and my home computer, and will continue to do so until the patriotic, dedicated, men, and women, of our armed forces are safely home. Just because I cited the United States Flag Code does not mean that I'm against flag patchs.