Firefighters Told To Remove American Flags From Their Trucks, So They Do THIS Instead According to recent reports, a group of firefighters from Rhode Island were just told by a local official that they could no longer fly the American flag from their trucks. Fox News reports that Fred Gralinski of the Central Coventry Fire District compared the practice of flying American flags on trucks to ISIS flying its black flag while riding around in Iraq. They look like a bunch of yahoos, Gralinski said at a board meeting. Like in the paper, like ISIS in Syria going to take over a city. I dont think they need that big flag on the back of the truck. Thats not America to me. Those are a bunch of terrorists. So Im going to ask you to take the flag off that truck. Later, Gralinski apologized for the comment, claiming he chose his words poorly. A firefighters union president said that the order hit firefighters particularly hard because many of them are veterans themselves. He also maintains that they should have been asked privately to not fly the flag. The district is now reviewing this flag-flying protocol with the military. What do you think of these new orders? 