Serving in the Navy for 10 years now and these comments make me sick. I'm all for Freedom of Speech. Say what you want, do what you want but never disrespect the flag. I don't like Obama more than the next guy on here. But that Flag is a symbol.
It is a symbol of what we as individuals as citizens of the United States can be.
It is a symbol of those who paid the price for freedom in this country.
It is a symbol of what we once were and still go back to.
Turning your back on it means turning your back on the very ideals that made this country great.
Not standing during athletic events? Well I forgot that you're a nutjob and probably live in a hole making out with your sister because she's safe. Put your tinfoil hat back on zac and crawl back to whatever womb gave excruciatingly painful birth to your giant head full of air.
Oh and the picture posted by OP? That was actually how the flag was saluted back then before ww2. It was Hitler's regime that ruined that stance. During WW2 it was suggested that we place our hands over our hearts instead. Much like the swastika, its meaning was ruined by the Nazi's.
Please do not disrespect the flag. It is the very symbol of our bill of rights. The very symbol that we preach about every day on these forums. You cannot stand up for a right given and blessed upon you by our constituion and not support the very symbol that was carried, bled for, and died for those rights we hold so dear.
Thank you.
Incorrect. Technically, it stands for the republic. (to the flag, and
to the republic for which it stands)
I
don't pledge allegiance to the republic, or to the flag which represents it. Got a problem with that? Well, all I can say is, get in line. There's a whole bunch of nationalist pigs that have beat you to that punch.
If you want to hold on to the flag as a symbol of all of those things, I completely support you in that. That is you exercising
your freedom. But the flag representing those things is in
your world and in
your head, you shouldn't take offense because I've chosen not to play the same game or have the same imagination. To me the flag does not represent any of those things. I'll stand up next to you for those things, but I won't use the flag to represent those things and I won't recognize that it does represent those things.