Originally Posted by Guest

I wasn't going to enter the patriotism, flag fray but some recent posts have tipped me to do so.

Like so many other subjects posted on this forum each to his own interpretation and then re-stating what they think they heard or read between the lines or just re-manufacture to suit their purpose....that is what I observe in this discussion.

There just seems to be a need for one upmanship on far too many discussions.
There needs to be more respect for another's position, opinion, feelings, observations, likes, dislikes, etc without having to put down all if they happen to differ from one or another.

All that is needed is the respect of the others rights to make their statement of how the see or want to see life.

To me the school yard style bantoring, childish bickering, name calling, aggrivating, disrespectful of others discourse is exercising free speech without a doubt. But has devolved to total lack of respect with repetitive disparaging of others views.

To try to scale the degree of patriotism based only on who served or didn't or those who fly the flag or don't or brag out loud or don't adds no value what so ever to the real subject of value.......we are all Americans.....we are all different......but no less Americans.....let's continue to hope and pray we remain the majority........

So how about cutting the BS of mine is bigger than yours and I am a better American than you and stand up as a group as we do when we are out together face to face in public and not anonymously riding the keyboard.

There will come a time in our future when the ONLY important American are the remaining ones to your left or to your right. Survival will sort us out very quickly and diminish the petty BS differences!

There is my two cents on the issue.....I have my body armor on!