Disabled veteran flies U.S. flag upside down to protest #shutdown

A disabled veteran expressed his frustration with the government shutdown by flying a U.S. flag upside down on the side of a busy Indianapolis road on Tuesday. Former military corporal Joseph Lohman, 25, spent 4 years in the Marine Corps before being injured in a training accident. Currently in need of surgery, his concern over the uncertainty of veterans receiving disability checks led him to stand beside the road for 12 hours. "With the government shutdown, the flag is flown upside down to show that America is in distress," he said. 

Across the country, about 800,000 federal workers are facing furloughs, in which 1 in 20 are disabled veterans.