RestlessSoul
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We have a bit of a flag fetish here.
Yeah, I noticed that. It's increasingly becoming the case in the UK too. I find this a most disturbing trend tbh.
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We have a bit of a flag fetish here.
And flowers at a funeral are just flowers.Ahh missed that part. Blame the booze. He should be charged with theft then.
That’s all the emotion I can muster. Sorry, it’s still just a flag to me.
Bit different. Unless you guys have funerals for old flags?And flowers at a funeral are just flowers.
There's a Flag Code? Blimey...
We revere our flag (worship is reserved for God) because it actually stands for something, and because people fought and died defending what it stands for. I don't expect most foreigners to understand or do the same because not all flags are due such reverence.I still don’t really care since unlike Americans I don’t worship my own flag. (Just an observation, I mean no offence.)
Hmm so 9/11 kicked off a wave of ultra patriotism? I’m not really old enough to know much about 9/11 other than the world was shook and my country readily answered the call for ally support. It was a horrible tragedy of course.Yeah, my dad taught me about the Flag Code when I was a kid. I come from a long line of flag-wavers.
For many years after 9/11, my dad displayed a U.S. flag in front of his house, as did every house on his street. Any house that didn't have a flag stood out like a sore thumb.
Ehh, there’s patriotic reverence for one’s flag and then there’s American reverence for the flag. Again I mean no offence. Just an observation. And my flag stands for lots of things. Different things to different people even. Things that people are willing to die for and even protest. That is their right. But we don’t slavishly worship it, we learn from itWe revere our flag (worship is reserved for God) because it actually stands for something, and because people fought and died defending what it stands for. I don't expect most foreigners to understand or do the same because not all flags are due such reverence.
Yea at soldiers memorials. ;0]Bit different. Unless you guys have funerals for old flags?
We revere our flag (worship is reserved for God) because it actually stands for something, and because people fought and died defending what it stands for. I don't expect most foreigners to understand or do the same because not all flags are due such reverence.
We revere our flag (worship is reserved for God) because it actually stands for something, and because people fought and died defending what it stands for. I don't expect most foreigners to understand or do the same because not all flags are due such reverence.
Whoa really? You guys mourn flags at funerals? FascinatingYea at soldiers memorials. ;0]
Heh.Whoa really? You guys mourn flags at funerals? Fascinating
Ahh, fair enoughHeh.
If only. ;0]
We just replace old worn flags with new ones.
It was a highly emotional event. As a result many are going to see a similarly between this and desecrating a holocaust memorial.Hmm so 9/11 kicked off a wave of ultra patriotism? I’m not really old enough to know much about 9/11 other than the world was shook and my country readily answered the call for ally support. It was a horrible tragedy of course.
I mean I can understand. This was a senseless act of destruction which cost people their lives.It was a highly emotional event. As a result many are going to see a similarly between this and desecrating a holocaust memorial.
Hmm so 9/11 kicked off a wave of ultra patriotism? I’m not really old enough to know much about 9/11 other than the world was shook and my country readily answered the call for ally support. It was a horrible tragedy of course.
Interesting. I think WWII kind of did the same for us, in terms of heightening patriotism. WWI moreso arguably, since that is where our “identity was forged” so to speakWell, the patriotism was always there, even before 9/11. There's a long history behind it, particularly during WW2 and the onset of the Cold War, when my dad was a teenager. There was a sense of danger to the Republic, and there was a strong sentiment that patriotism and loyalty were a matter of national survival.
Yes i know, i just find the indignant protests when a muslin burns a flag in protest rather amusing.
Then I trust that you could identify at least a few clauses in the Flag Code that this display violated.Yeah, my dad taught me about the Flag Code when I was a kid. I come from a long line of flag-wavers.