my friend andy and I had flag duty in 7th grade for a week, which meant we were responsible for bringing the us flag from the school office, putting it on the flagpole, raising it, saluting it, and going back inside
we got in trouble one day because no one told us we were supposed to fly it at half-mast and neither of us had this knowledge innately, and that was how I started to figure out maybe worshipping a length of colorful fabric might be kinda problematic