“If the flag is for national parks, I am all for it,” said Joe Amaral, also from Las Vegas. “We have been to 32 national parks.

An upside-down American flag, a symbol for distress associated with the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, was flown at Supreme Court Justice Alito’s house in 2021, a report found.

Personal distress There have been some notable instances in American history when the flag was flown upside down. Overturning of Roe v. Wade The Flint, Michigan, water crisis Sept. 11 terrorist attack ...