Great presentation! Thanks for p***ing it along. I learned how to treat the flag when I was a young kid in the Boy Scouts; and insisted on it, as well, in the military. Too bad, these days, the ACLU, in the name of "rights" is running the Scouts outta town!
Thank you Truss for providing a different slant. Thats what is great about this country. Checks and balances were formed as a way to give different views and allow us to govern one another. I for one, never took your views as unpatriotic. Above all, this post wasnt created to attack one anothers views. Only to pay tribute to those who have served for our rights to give a different opinion. thanks for that!! PJ
Thanks PeteJoe, I appreciate that. I've reread some of posts. I also didn't mean for any of them to be attacking. I can see how some may have thought so. I'm sorry for that.
TRuss, I admit my first reaction to your post was '****er!' but like Petejoe said, its just another slant on the issue. I understand that you were not being un-patriotic or condecending. But that is with a little thought, I almost did post blasting you right after reading it! Doc.
I lost my Dad last month. He was a ww2 vetran, Phillipines, Luzon, etc. I did not know about some of the Decorations he had received until I read about it in his obit. I didn't truly appreciate what kind of hell they went through until talking to some of his friends after the service. I pretty much lost it when they presented the flag to my mother. I've come to realize (at 61 yrs.) I need to man up, quit whining and be a better person. I also realize I should have spent more time with him.......... Thanks for the thread.
Put a lump in my throat. Over the Memorial Day weekend I had a young (25ish) fellow ask me the meaning of the red Poppy that I was wearing. He now knows.
Great video. My bood pressure goes through the roof when the National Anthem is played at the drag races, and I look around at all the losers with their hats on doing anything else but paying respect to the flag. Not to be too negative though, most people are respectful.
Someone had posted earlier about the younger generation not respecting flag or country and to some extent that is true. However, there are still those who are more than happy to step up and answer the call to serve their country. This link is to a video that was produced by Texas A&M University and shown at halftime of one of their football games. http://www.aggienetwork.com/troopsupport/AggieSoldierTribute.wmv For those of you who do not know Texas A&M has a very deeply rooted military history and now has a roughly 2000 strong Corp of Cadets within the university. In fact it is the largest uniformed Corp outside the US Military Academies. So, while the video is geared toward Aggies it still shows we do have those younger folks who we can look up to and be proud of.
I agree Born to Late. The really gets me...but then when it's over and everybody cheers like it's some sort of rock concert that just pushes me over edge. I hate it. For those who don't know. It used to be considered extremely disrespectful to cheer at the end of the National Anthem. Don't do it.
The "buddy Poppy" program of the VFW started in the early 1920's (1922 I think), A haunting poem was the cornerstone of this movement, a way for veterans to remember there fallen brothers, and in remembering, ***ure them the rest that they earned. Col. John McCrae Dec. 1915 [SIZE=+1]IN FLANDERS FIELDS the poppies blow[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Between the crosses row on row,[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]That mark our place; and in the sky[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The larks, still bravely singing, fly[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Scarce heard amid the guns below.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]We are the Dead. Short days ago[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Loved and were loved, and now we lie[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]In Flanders fields.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Take up our quarrel with the foe:[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]To you from failing hands we throw[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The torch; be yours to hold it high.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]If ye break faith with us who die[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]We shall not sleep[/SIZE][SIZE=+1], though poppies grow[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]In Flanders fields.[/SIZE]
Man, you know how to make an old man cry.....As a retired GI I still feel I still owe this country everything , and She owes me nothing!
Thank you for the video link,the flag is the root of our free country and we should embrace what it stands for and those who fight for it
Years ago, my folks were at an antique show in the frisco area. one dealer had al sorts of war memorbilia, and above their space was a german banner with a ********. My dad went up to the guy with this very piercing, angry look, a look I saw quite a bit of as a child, and asked him to please take that banner down and replace it with the American flag. The guy kind of ignores my dad request, goes about his business, my dad continuing to stare at this guy and he's now getting to the scary faze of his maddness. Dad goes up to the guys face and again repeats his request. the guy says "what gives you the right..... dad says calmly "I lost some brothers over there, so we would never see that banner flying on american soil. The guy still upset with my dad turns around, climbs up and removes the banner. I said," dad I thought you and you brothers were in the south pacific?" He said all of us in WW2 were brothers. I was so proud of my dad. God bless to all who serve this wonderful nation and thanks petejoe, this should never be ot, OLY The cancer car lives Give to cancer research
I lost the "old man" to lung cancer in December 2006. He was a fighting sailor during the Korean Conflict on the USS El Dorado stationed in Japan . Rest in peace Dad.
I hope this OT thread never ends BUT if it has to I hope it gets a place in the archives for all of us who care to revisit !
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