I remember SDCC having us add them to our uniforms when we under-going World Jamboree shakedown, made some sense before we left. But when we arrived in Japan made even more sense, uniforms of every nationality were everywhere, a sea of color. I on more than one occasion had to use that flag to navigate when going threw the various subcamps, as did others in the reverse.
(...and just for fun. As I was about to write this, I noticed the "Sponsor" to the forum here was a set of FLAG SUSPENDERS" for $19.95 How's that for punctuation on the subject.....)
I wear the flag, from the