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How many Veterans are offended by the peace symbol and why? (vanity)
7-14-2009

Posted on 07/14/2009 11:35:38 AM PDT by Freedom2specul8

RANDOM POLL:

Veterans: how many of you are offended by the peace symbol and why?

(Family members and friends who know the answer, please feel free to speak on behalf of Veterans who cannot post.... )

Thank you for your time!

To quote myself: "I’ve always associated the peace symbol with those who spit on the vietnam vets"


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: chrisparry; jimthompson; peacesymbol; racism; veterans
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Offended by it? No. I find it rather silly, actually.
So you’re “FOR peace”? Is there anyone AGAINST peace?
It’s like saying you’re for puppies and butterflies.
Rather pointless.
Especially when the real world insists on intruding.

“Support you local Vietnam veterans. Napalm a hippie.”

(btw, veteran of the first Gulf War)


61 posted on 07/14/2009 12:24:56 PM PDT by astyanax (I'm here to spread peace, love and happiness... so get the f*#% out of my way.)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

While I am not a veteran, my late father was a veteran of WWII. I absolutely HATE the peace symbol and have ever since I was in school in the late 60’s. The other thing that drives me crazy is the peace sign. Also I hate the word “cool”! Oh and while I’m on a roll, those guys who constantly whined and worried that they might lose their college deferments drove me crazy too! Most of them didn’t have a rich daddy either. Ok I now feel better!


62 posted on 07/14/2009 12:26:52 PM PDT by Cricket24 (Sarah is doing it her way!)
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To: awake-n-angry

Methinks His peace is not what the symbol advocates.


63 posted on 07/14/2009 12:28:27 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (John Galt was exiled.)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

I was in Vietnam in ‘68/’69. I was 19 & 20 years old at the time. I am a combat-disabled vet. The symbol offended me a lot immediately after I got back. I equated it with cowardice. Today, I’m a little more tolerant.

The older I got, the more mellow (and hopefully wiser) I got. After reading all the history of “McNamara’s War” (including his), I just got mad. 58K American young men and women killed for nought. Countless thousands of others injured or maimed beyond repair. My friends...gone.

The politico’s and DOD wouldn’t let us win. Our only choice was to lose and leave. If I had met McNamara any time during the 80’s or 90’s, I’d have offed the bastard myself.

I consider the first Gulf War and the liberation of Iraq to be righteous conflicts. While noble, we’ll never win in Afghanistan. Nobody else has. We should pack up and leave them to the tribal wars they have been fighting for centuries.

I am now 60 years old and don’t want to see any more young men and women killed for nothing.


64 posted on 07/14/2009 12:29:49 PM PDT by CTOCS (Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

My uncle, who was an FBI agent during the 60s and 70s, found out the peace symbol was brought over from Britain and represents the semaphore signals for the letters N and D, which stood for Nuclear Disarmament espoused by Bertrand Russell and other like-minded academics. My uncle’s job was to find out who was funding the protests or the printing of publicity material and as we all know now, the KGB played a very significant role.


65 posted on 07/14/2009 12:30:01 PM PDT by 12Gauge687 (Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
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To: awake-n-angry
What Jesus is speaking of here is the spiritual peace of believers. He even says:In this world you will have trouble.

The words of Jesus do not mean an absence of conflict.

66 posted on 07/14/2009 12:30:42 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: SJSAMPLE

When a peacnik gives me the two fingered peace sign, my comeback is “Yeah, V for Victory”. That usually upsets them to the point, that they then give me a one fingered salute. I then explain to them that it isn’t necessary to share their IQ with us. That really makes them so mad, while flustering them to the point that they don’t know what to do.


67 posted on 07/14/2009 12:33:26 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (According to the MSM, I'm a fringe sitting, pajama wearing Freeper)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Color me offended.

I always think of dirty, smelly hippies when I see it.

USS Henry B. Wilson (DDG-7)
Destroyer Squadron 13
US 3rd Fleet
San Diego, CA
1979-1983


68 posted on 07/14/2009 12:34:11 PM PDT by atc23
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

Doesn’ bother me at all.


69 posted on 07/14/2009 12:34:47 PM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

I veto’d a bunch of clothing purchases my wife was going to make on behalf of my 8 year old because of that symbol.

For me, it is the symbol of a movement that believes:

“We are not endowed with anything by a creator.

Moreover, no truth is self-evident, and the freedom to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are very alienable. As such, we believe that no institution, regardless of its history, merits, or origins, has any compelling value proposition to society.

In fact, we believe that live and let live is the only truth in evidence, and to that end, one should do what you will.”


70 posted on 07/14/2009 12:35:47 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~

What would the Founding Fathers say?

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your consels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.”

Samuel Adams, August 1, 1776


71 posted on 07/14/2009 12:36:45 PM PDT by anonsquared
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To: 12Gauge687

It’s an older symbol than that. It’s history was posted on a thread this morning but I can’t remember which one. I have a “leaky” brain.


72 posted on 07/14/2009 12:38:46 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
I feel about the peace sign the same way that I feel about the Swastika or the Hammer-and-Sickle. They all disgust and offend me ...

... because of the appallingly low quality of humanity that displays and upholds them.

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Swear allegiance to the flag, whatever flag they offer;
Never hint at what you really feel.
Teach the children quietly for, someday, sons and daughters
Will rise up and fight while we stood still.

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73 posted on 07/14/2009 12:41:07 PM PDT by BlueLancer (Think Of It As Evolution in Action)
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To: onedoug

ping


74 posted on 07/14/2009 12:41:24 PM PDT by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: Allegra
Oh, you mean the upside-down chicken’s foot?

It's not "upside-down", it indicates the direction chickens go when there's fighting to do.

75 posted on 07/14/2009 12:45:02 PM PDT by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
I think we all know that the "peace" symbol isn't about peace. It's about hating America, supporting communism, and having contempt for America's soldiers.

That applies to the 60s/70s crowd anyway. In the current generation, it's mostly about ignorance.

76 posted on 07/14/2009 12:56:30 PM PDT by 3niner (When Obama succeeds, America fails.)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
From what I'm learning it's not just a peace symbol. Barack Obama's elder daughter wears top with peace symbol used as Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament logo.
77 posted on 07/14/2009 12:59:51 PM PDT by McGruff (I guess "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican" is n/a these days.)
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Because of what transpired over the weekend, I felt the need to know what others are thinking, and how many of us are like minded or similar minded. The variety of comments have inspired me, and have modified my attitude about it a little bit. While I still think it was poor judgement on obama's part by allowing his child to wear the tshirt with the peace symbol on it.. I truly respect and understand those of you who remind us that we have the freedom to choose what we wear. The symbol still means something to those who participated in the demonstrations of the 60's, and it reminds the Vietnam Veterans (and eye witnesses) of what they had to experience (IE:be at risk at a public event like the dead concert). I think Post #23 reflects what may of you are saying..
PEACE, to be meaningful, must be the handmaiden of FREEDOM. A man’s body may be at peace in the absence of war, but his soul cannot be at peace in the absence of liberty.
It's clearly obvious to me by reading this thread that people have not forgotten what it means, look at the article Spectre posted.

What are we suppose to think when we are reminded that even though freedom grants people to (fill in the blank), our first family uses a symbol that reminds us of the hate and cruelty against our Veterans?

((still reading replies...))

78 posted on 07/14/2009 1:00:54 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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To: McGruff
To continue my previous post.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) is an organization that advocates unilateral nuclear disarmament by Britain. It also campaigns for international nuclear disarmament and tighter international arms regulation through agreements such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It opposes military action that may result in the use of nuclear, chemical or biological weapons and the building of nuclear power stations in the UK.

CND was formed in 1957 and has periodically been at the forefront of the peace movement in the United Kingdom over half a century. It claims to be Europe's largest single-issue peace campaign. Since 1958, it has organised the Aldermaston March, which is held over the Easter weekend from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Establishment near Aldermaston.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_for_Nuclear_Disarmament

79 posted on 07/14/2009 1:03:36 PM PDT by McGruff (I guess "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican" is n/a these days.)
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To: McGruff

Thanks will go read that now...


80 posted on 07/14/2009 1:05:13 PM PDT by Freedom2specul8 (Please pray for our troops.... http://www.americasupportsyou.mil/)
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