I find this really disrespectful

[scottmoyer]

Ahhh. Got it. I thought you were referring to the flag being backwards on one side and I thought you were saying that was wrong. My mistake.

 

[Brutal_HO]

You misunderstood my comment about flags in vehicles. I know the proper orientation for them. Many people don't buy the reverse image flag for passenger side

Ahhh. Got it. I thought you were referring to the flag being backwards on one side and I thought you were saying that was wrong. My mistake.

Perhaps a better term is "incorrect" orientation.

Stars forward is the correct orientation. Hell, I even did that on the custom bed stake pocket plugs I made.

 

[Brutal_HO]

Just to clear things up, they are referring to official flags that should not be used as clothing, mats, etc. Printing the likeness of the flag is NOT the flag. I do agree that the flag code clearly states that it should never be used as a mat or in any advertising.

Regarding the passenger side vehicle flag facing backwards, that is the correct layout. Since the flag has the field of blue on the top left when looking at it on one side, the opposite side of the flag when on a pole and going forward into battle would show the field of blue to the right when on the right side .

"This blue star field must always face towards the front, in the highest position of honor, followed by the flag’s red and white stripes, so the blue field of stars on the U.S. flag patch must be “reversed” so that its position is in front as troops move forward.

If the flag was not worn “backward” on the right sleeve of a military uniform, according to protocol, then it would appear as if it were retreating.

When the U.S. flag is displayed on any object that is moving, including a person in uniform, the field of blue must be displayed towards the front of the object.

There is some language in the code that says any "representation" of the flag or a part of it that one could construe as the US flag, on clothing or materials that advertises the product, is prohibited. It doesn't have to be the whole flag or an actual flag

§3. Use of flag for advertising purposes; mutilation of flag​

Any person who, within the District of Columbia, in any manner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement of any nature upon any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America; or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign upon which shall have been printed, painted, or otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing, or any advertisement of any nature; or who, within the District of Columbia, shall manufacture, sell, expose for sale, or to public view, or give away or have in possession for sale, or to be given away or for use for any purpose, any article or substance being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle for merchandise or article or thing for carrying or transporting merchandise, upon which shall have been printed, painted, attached, or otherwise placed a representation of any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign, to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, in the discretion of the court. The words “flag, standard, colors, or ensign”, as used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors, ensign, or any picture or representation of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or represented on any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America or a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be shown the colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or ensign of the United States of America.

(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642; Pub. L. 90–381, §3, July 5, 1968, 82 Stat. 291.)

That said, it generally uses the language, "should" so it gives a lot of leeway.