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One of my buddies went and watched Girl, Interrupted to see what I was on about with the Taiwanese flag thing and realized that the hippie who picked up the main character from hitchhiking wasn't wearing a Taiwanese flag. No, it appears to be a blood chit from the Flying Tigers. For those who don't recall, the Flying Tigers were a "volunteer" group made up of US pilots who served as the Republic of China's air force during WWII.

A blood chit is a notice written in local language meant get the help of civilians should a pilot get downed. The Flying Tigers would typically sew theirs (with the KMT flag) on the back of their jackets. The Flying Tigers would go on to fly in the Civil Air Transport airline, which eventually became Air America. 

My friend postulated that since Girl, Interrupted occurs during 1967-68, that "hippie" could very well be a CAT/Air America pilot on furlough, and that the pilot would have necessarily been involved in drug trafficking given the flights at the time. How insane is that? Who put this into the movie?

Also, correction: I definitely misspoke and confused borderline personality disorder with bipolar personality disorder at one point in the episode. Kaysen was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.