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.
“I don’t question the patriotism of the veterans I see displaying it.”
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I’ll admit I did a double-take at your post! HA!
I don’t question their patriotism either,
But , , ,
what Patriot doesn’t have fond reverence for Old Glory?
In my day, in public school, we pledged Allegiance to the Flag every morning. We also said the [Protestant version] of the Our Father, and that was not so very long ago. I believe I was introduced to Barbara Fritchie in grade school; students today, probably not.
Maybe kids since then, who are now adults, were not trained in respect for the flag.
Not veterans, they were trained in respect for Old Glory. What Patriot doesn’t have chills at Taps?? Retreat? Vets know about respect for Old Glory.
At my WW II vet Uncle’s funeral, my daughter asked why my brother, her uncle, had tears in his eyes at the playing of Taps. I said, “Because he is a soldier.”
The folding of the flag.
The dignity, the respect.
I get freedom of expression; but that freedom does not force crassness. It tolerates, allows it.
The Flag, the colors, represent the Constitution, our Constitutional Republic, which is why protesters burn it.
They know the symbolism of the Flag, the colors. Which is why they choose to burn it.
More impact than burning a sheaf of papers, with the Constitution printed on it. Because they cannot burn The Constitution. They denigrate the Flag which represents it.
Vets, bikers, should know better than to denigrate the flag of the Constitution they are said to hold dear.
Old Glory is not something to be joked about, made the subject of “clever” innuendo.
It is to be respected with a kind of reverence. not a false reverence, but in real appreciation for what it represents, Our Constitution, nothing less.
Is the Constitution to be made light of, too? A type of joke, among those who are too clever by half in their own freedom of expression? ? ?
This day and age amazes me. Even presumed allies, feel free to denigrate what should be upheld.
respectfully, etc.
“I don’t question the patriotism of the veterans I see displaying it.”
....
I’ll admit I did a double-take at your post! HA!
I don’t question their patriotism either,
But , , ,
what Patriot doesn’t have fond reverence for Old Glory?
In my day, in public school, we pledged Allegiance to the Flag every morning. We also said the [Protestant version] of the Our Father, and that was not so very long ago. I believe I was introduced to Barbara Fritchie in grade school; students today, probably not.
Maybe kids since then, who are now adults, were not trained in respect for the flag.
Not veterans, they were trained in respect for Old Glory. What Patriot doesn’t have chills at Taps?? Retreat? Vets know about respect for Old Glory.
At my WW II vet Uncle’s funeral, my daughter asked why my brother, her uncle, had tears in his eyes at the playing of Taps. I said, “Because he is a soldier.”
The folding of the flag.
The dignity, the respect.
I get freedom of expression; but that freedom does not force crassness. It tolerates, allows it.
The Flag, the colors, represent the Constitution, our Constitutional Republic, which is why protesters burn it.
They know the symbolism of the Flag, the colors. Which is why they choose to burn it.
More impact than burning a sheaf of papers, with the Constitution printed on it. Because they cannot burn The Constitution. They denigrate the Flag which represents it.
Vets, bikers, should know better than to denigrate the flag of the Constitution they are said to hold dear.
Old Glory is not something to be joked about, made the subject of “clever” innuendo.
It is to be respected with a kind of reverence. not a false reverence, but in real appreciation for what it represents, Our Constitution, nothing less.
Is the Constitution to be made light of, too? A type of joke, among those who are too clever by half in their own freedom of expression? ? ?
This day and age amazes me. Even presumed allies, feel free to denigrate what should be upheld.
respectfully, etc.