SI airbrushed Patrick's tattoo (American Flag) out of Swimsuit issue

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[zeugma]

Not Guilty

Of anything.

Ever.

[ArrogantBustard]

You need a tattoo for all that?

That ... sad.

[spodefly]

Not specific to them airbrushing out an American flag, which was probably done by some lefty art director who would have never done the same thing to any other tatoo, I wish the whole tatoo fad would dissipate soon.

You can take the most beautiful woman with a tatoo and it becomes hard to see her as anything other than low class trash.

[Centurion2000]

Smart move for the lady. The one skin coaster I could never see a patriot setting a drink on. Wouldn't want to disrespect the flag ....

[momincombatboots]

It is sad, isn’t it? But I LOVE my tattoo.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

Thanks for the heads up retrokitten...I was on a project all day yesterday with no 'puter access.

TATTOOED FREEPERS TRAILER PARK and BAR & GRILLE....PING!!!

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

"Tattoo’s aren’t lady like. They detract from your natural beauty. Tattoo’s used to be considered a sign that you were once in prison, and frankly, I think that’s where the “image” belongs." I have tattoos and the only time I was EVER in prison was when I was employed as a Correction's Officer. I resent you implications.

[WayneS]

Tattoo’s used to be considered a sign that you were once in prison...

Who told you that bit of inaccurate tripe?

[Professor_Leonide]

Much of my experience is in the Philippines, and even in the U.S.A. tattoos are rampant among prisoners and the youth who show off their buttcrack, not saying that you do.

No offense intended to people with tattoos.

[WayneS]

What about the hundreds-of-years-old tradition of sailors who honorably serve their country, without ever being NEAR a prison, getting tattoo(s)?

That is the tradition I am familiar with.

[Professor_Leonide]

My apologies to you on that subject, because the Navy had a rich tradition of tattoos.

Tattoos are a lot more complex that people are making them out to be, of this I am very aware.

What ships did you serve on?

[WayneS]

You owe me no apology.

I did not serve in the Navy. My father was a career NCO, so the Navy tradition of tattoos is the one with which I am most familiar.

I did not mean to imply that I had served and I apologize if I came across as doing so.

My father served on the Destoyer Charles F. Adams, Cruiser Newport News, Destroyer Escort Elmer Montgomery and on the Battleship Missouri when it was re-commissioned during the 1980s. He also served on several other ships before I was born, whose names I cannot recall.

I do have a tattoo, and I suppose my exposure to them as I was growing up around my father and his friends/fellow sailors probably affected my decision to get one - although I suppose The REAL reason is that I am one of those "low-life biker-types". I haven't been in prison, though, or ever even close to being sent there.

The bottom line is: there are many reasons people CHOOSE to get tattoos and I think it is great that we live in a country where people can CHOOSE to decorate (or NOT decorate) their bodies as they see fit.

[Professor_Leonide]

Holy holy holy... Your Father served on the USS CHARLES F. ADAMS (DDG 2)??? Cool. Those guided missile destroyers had such a sleek profile! If you don’t know this, the CHARLES F ADAMS was the namesake of the Adams class destroyers and the last of them was decommissioned in the early 1990’s - they were great ships!

[RichInOC]

[cue “American Made” by the Oak Ridge Boys]

[reagan_fanatic]

I agree with you. Tattoos on a woman are a big turn-off for me.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

My Grandfather was on the USS Wichita in WWII.

[RandallFlagg]

There's a tattooed FReeper list??
Sign me up!
(Click to make sure I qualify first)

[WayneS]

My father attended a USS CFA reunion in South Carolina a few years back. He had not seen some of his shipmates since the early 1960s. He had a great time - he has said several times that apart from Mighty Mo’, the Adams was his favorite ship.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

You Qualify...and you are added!!!

[RandallFlagg]

Thank you.