No offense is intended, and I appreciate your sentiment, but I don't share it. The patches in question are rather common and I don't question the patriotism of the veterans I see displaying it.
Your American Style patch bothered me. Red White and Blue, our Sacred Federal Colors, used on a patch of a woman.
Now I know why it bothered me.
I am at the farm with fresh air and sweat, and time to think while doing manual labor.
In the interest of following up on my research, I even have the reference here at the farm.
Intro: TOO many brave men have died, defending the colors. To let your use of those sacred colors on a patch using a woman to provoke innuendo, to go unremarked, I cannot.
So here it is:
One example of men who gave up their lives for the Sacred Colors of our Nation. Not to mention Iwo Jima ... well people know about that, they do know know about this example from the Civil War.
“The incident that made the most vivid impression was the devoted stand made by the color guard [of the 103rd OVI of Ohio] in defense of their flag. The sergeant who carried the colors, Martin Striebler [Streibler], was a member of Co. E, a magnificent man, six feet and four inches tall, of gigantic mold . . . was beloved by the entire regiment for his gentle ways, his voice was soft and kind . . . . too brave to lie down with the rest and although so ordered, stood up manfully waving the colors over the Regiment. The color guard stood up with him until they were all killed or wounded . . . The colors were seized by one corporal after another . . . “
Etc.
That bloodied flag is now in the flag room at Columbus, Ohio.
And now . . . OK, freedom of expression, bikers use those Sacred Colors that so many of this one Regiment died for, in this one Civil War Battle, not to mention all the other times and places that brave men died to protect the Colors, as a patch of sexual innuendo?? Spare me, PLEASE.
That is not what the Red White and Blue is about.