'Post the Colors' is a metaphor used with regard to Flags, Bunting (those '4th of July swags), and items meant to signify the Flag of the United States of America. 'Post the Colors' has always referred to display on inanimate objects.
Wearing the U.S. Flag (which, by the way, is not the 'American' flag -any more than the Flag of Brazil, also an 'American' country) on ones clothing is a personal display of an inward commitment, not an inanimate 'Posting'. The 60's and 70's era were rife with appropriate -and inappropriate, examples, thus the law governing personal displays (I vividly remem
