The Philippine Flag boo boo during the 2nd ASEAN-US Leader’s meeting

It was surprising to see our dear Philippine flag flown upside down during the recently concluded 2nd ASEAN-US Leader’s meeting held at Manhattan, New York City.

Apparently in this video above, you can see closely the "inverted" flag behind the Philippines' own president. 

For those unaware, the Philippine Flag is composed of equal horizontal bands of blue and red with a white triangle at its hoist. On the center of the triangle is a yellow sun with eight rays. All these colors and symbols have their own SIGNIFICANT meanings.

You see, the Philippines does need a separate war flag because the country could use it's national flag instead. How? It's as simple as inverting the flag in a manner where the red band is flowing on top of the blue band.


I have read enraged comments from Filipinos all over the world, but who is to blame? Uh-oh, looks like people start to point fingers AGAIN.

“Protocol noticed, but nothing could be done in time. Informed US Embassy as well. US State Dept handled that event.”

So, the U.S handled the event ey? But what about President Benigno Aquino III who was just standing in front of his country's "inverted-war-flag"? 

“This was an honest mistake. The U.S. treasures its close relationship and close partnership with the Philippines which were demonstrated tis past week during President Aquino’s trip to the U.S., with the signing of the MCC Compact, the US-ASEAN meeting, and the meeting of our two Presidents that followed it.”

- Rebecca Thompson, US Embassy

Whether it was an honest mistake or not, whoever put those flag up shouldn’t have overlooked such "details" no matter how big or small they think it is, because we are indeed talking about international relations here. We don't want to be sending out wrong messages to the International community and endangering the nation just because of an "honest mistake".