Flags! What flags do you have?

Flags! What flags do you have? I haven't found a thread on this. I have different confederate flags, US flags, christian flags, an american christian flag.

Post pics!
I've got a bunch hanging up; Gadsden, Join or Die, Fort Sumter flag, Lee's HQ flag, Irish brigade, Alamo flag. They're just placeholders for now before I start hanging up prints and lithographs. I have a few CDVs I want to get framed and hung up as well
 
I only have 2 flags, both of which I've only ever used for taking pictures with items. I much prefer the cotton First National flag to the polyester battle flag as it is heavier, has a better feel, and takes "weathering" better in my opinion.

I don't have pics of the flags by themselves but here are a couple of pictures showing most of the flag (chose sword pics to minimize obstruction)

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Unfortunately, I think the only real flag I own is a Gadsen flag that I won at a marksmanship event... If I had had my druthers, It'd be the red ensign with pine tree of New England, purely for genealogical/ historical reasons.

I do quite like the state flag of Louisiana during the ACW.

I have kerchief-sized Texas and Come and Take It flags, but nothing larger.
 
Flew this flag from my pickup truck's antenna when my Little Brother and I visited the battlefields and skirmish sites of Virginia over 30 years ago. Wrote the name of each site on the flag as we camped each night.
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Upon getting home we transferred the names to a larger flag. After several such summer camping trips, we ended up with this. She is starting to fade now.

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It is "professional" looking.
Maybe it will inspire someone else to do the same thing if they visit battlefields with their kid(s). Worked great on the cotton battleflag. Of course if your choice is a Union flag, you'd probably want to use the Union name for various battlefields (Bull Run, Antietam). At the time I was big into collecting Confederate currency and buttons, so decided to go Southern style.
 
I have one large, US flag on my flagpole out in front of my home.

A US presentation flag in a wooden case on my den bookshelf with all my US Army medals and rank insignias I earned during my service.

One tabletop Texas flag and one tabletop Stars and Bars Confederate flag, both on top of another bookshelf in my den.
 
I have one large, US flag on my flagpole out in front of my home.

A US presentation flag in a wooden case on my den bookshelf with all my US Army medals and rank insignias I earned during my service.

One tabletop Texas flag and one tabletop Stars and Bars Confederate flag, both on top of another bookshelf in my den.
Thank you for your service. Good way to personally commemorate and remember it.
 

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