Some things just don't matter... or do they?

I really wish someone could explain to me why the US Flag, as displayed on the uniforms of the Army (I don't know about the rest of the services) is displayed backwards.

According to the US Flag Code when a flag is displayed flat
"... the union should be uppermost and to the flag's own right, that is, to the observer's left." This is of course in the same material that suggests the proper way to dispose of a flag is by burning (something that a few pinheaded members of Congress encouraged by Fearless Leader and including Lady Clinton have been trying to outlaw with an incredibly ill-conceived and patently absurd Constitutional Amendment). What I want to know is what idiot designed the backward flag patch and for what reason? Is it supposed to symbolize the flag flying backwards as our forces go ever onward? Or is it just someone's basic stupidity in ignoring the clear rules laid down for respect of the symbol everybody seems to get so all fired head up about? Clearly... it was not done by anyone who was ever a Boy Scout!

And while we're on the subject... what's up with this well documented desecration of the flag by Fearless Leader his own damn self? Signing a flag with a Sharpie!?!?! Is there any way to call that anything other than desecration, and therefore a distinct violation of the flag code, not to mention an incredibly arrogant gaff for the POTUS (but probably not as big a gaff as giving the Chancellor of Germany a backrub, or "Brownie you're doing a heck of a job!").

So... does any of this matter?

It seems to me that, as has been said by many before... "God is in the details." If you are incapable of, or uninterested in, paying attention to the small things why in the hell should anyone trust you with the big stuff?

Or, as Arthur Miller put it, "Attention must be paid."

Or... as the central message of the Buddha so clearly states... "You must be present to win."