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I wonder what the real Americans feel about the flag being used this way.... are there any native American members on the forum ?
I wonder what the real Americans feel about the flag being used this way.... are there any native American members on the forum ?
One thing we did lose with the standardization of the flag, was the beautiful Grand Luminary flags of the Civil War!
Check and double check. Respecting the flag for what it represents is one thing. Worshiping it in and of itself is quite another.
I wonder what the real Americans feel about the flag being used this way.... are there any native American members on the forum ?
Sheep lady,Im not arguing with you.You don't have to get snippy.
People will use any excuse to mob up and be savages.You only have to go back a few weeks for examples of that.Americanism has nothing to do with it.I personally knew a man who was savagely beaten by a mob in the town of Litchfield, Illinois, in 1940 because his religious convictions prevented him from saluting any flag. The kind of person who participates in such a mob is the kind of person who worships a flag without even the slightest bit of awareness of the principles that it's supposed to represent. If that's "Americanism," not only do I want no part of it, I stand in absolute opposition to it.
Agreed.Check and double check. Respecting the flag for what it represents is one thing. Worshiping it in and of itself is quite another.
There are far worse things done under the guise of America and being a "real American" to take a mundane photograph too seriously.I personally knew a man who was savagely beaten by a mob in the town of Litchfield, Illinois, in 1940 because his religious convictions prevented him from saluting any flag. The kind of person who participates in such a mob is the kind of person who worships a flag without even the slightest bit of awareness of the principles that it's supposed to represent. If that's "Americanism," not only do I want no part of it, I stand in absolute opposition to it.
I personally knew a man who was savagely beaten by a mob in the town of Litchfield, Illinois, in 1940
the kind of person who worships a flag without even the slightest bit of awareness of the principles that it's supposed to represent.
If that's "Americanism," not only do I want no part of it, I stand in absolute opposition to it.
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Most flags I see these days -- flags made to fly from front porches and roadside utility poles -- are printed on cheap synthetic fabric. To dispose of such a flag in the manner suggested above wouldn't be impossible, but it would require a steady hand on the scissors to neatly separate the white stripes from the red, and really, who's gonna do that? And I imagine those synthetics smell nasty when set alight.
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You must be older than you look .
Most local Boy Scout troops will gladly take front porch US Flags & retire them properly.
I personally knew a man who was savagely beaten by a mob in the town of Litchfield, Illinois, in 1940 because his religious convictions prevented him from saluting any flag. The kind of person who participates in such a mob is the kind of person who worships a flag without even the slightest bit of awareness of the principles that it's supposed to represent. If that's "Americanism," not only do I want no part of it, I stand in absolute opposition to it.
But I'm in the same camp as our Ms. Maine in questioning why folks would be angered by the image that opened this thread and not seem to care about the blatantly commercial uses of the flag, which is much more prevalent, and which is equally contrary to the Flag Code.