Vets’ flags forced down from East TN highway

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“We honor the flag. We do it for the public to see how we appreciate it.”

The Oliver Springs chapter of Disabled American Veterans has displayed American flags alongside the median of Highway 62 for about two decades.

“It’s the most patriotic thing we can do,” Commander Omer Cox said.

But come flag day next week and the 4th of July, the median will be bear.

“I was upset. It was emotional for me,” Cox said.

“I was home trying to do some weed eating and I got a call from our Commander, Omer Cox, and really, I didn’t need a weed-whacker to beat the bushes down,” Frank Phillips, another member of the D.A.V. said.

The Tennessee Department of Transportation got a call from someone who filed a complaint about the flags.

Some un-Patriotic PoS!

“It’s just a safety aspect,” TDOT Spokesman Mark Nagi said.

So the state told the veterans that their flags had to go. While TDOT offered to retrieve them from the median and hold on to the flags until the D.A.V. could pick them up, the veterans wanted to do it themselves.