Where are the flags?

Last night I took a walk with my wife and dog. It was a beautiful evening for a stroll through our Fairfax County, VA neighborhood. But some things seemed to be missing.
We first moved to Fairfax County over twenty years ago. Back then, it seemed a profoundly patriotic place - close to the national capitol, many military and ex-military residents and a sense of real closeness to the history of what made our country great. And on the 4th of July holiday American flags could be seen everywhere - on most homes and flying in front of most places of business.
Sadly, that all seems to have changed. During our walk last night I counted American flags flying from fewer than 1 in 20 homes. I took another walk this morning to see if I'd see anything different - if perhaps people had taken their flags in just before dark on July 3rd and put them back up on the morning of the 4th. But that was not the case. There were no more flags flying this morning than there were last night. In our neighborhood of over 900 homes, you could drive up and down every street and not see more than 50 flags.
Of course, when we moved here there was a President in office who so profoundly respected his country and his duty as President that he never went into the Oval Office without a suit coat on. Since then, we've had a President who couldn't keep his pants on in the Oval Office and now we have one who - as a candidate for President - refused to wear an American flag pin on his lapel. And as President now, besides driving our country rapidly into bankruptcy, he's spent most of his time in office telling the world what a terrible place America is and how awful its people have been to the rest of the world for the past two centuries.
I guess it shouldn't be surprising that with a President in office who takes no pride in our flag or our country's greatness we'd see less American pride on display in our neighborhood on July 4th. But it is still deeply disappointing.