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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
If I had been in Germany in 1936 at the Olympics, I hope that I would not have stood for their National Anthem. Nor saluted Adolf Hitler.
I would stand for almost any countries' National Anthem now but there are still exceptions. This would however depend on why I was in that country or at some place where that National Anthem is being played.
I respect the American Flag, the National Anthem and the like but really only because of the ideals that our Founding Fathers had for this country as expressed in the US Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and other important documents like the Emancipation Proclamation and some of the documents from the Civil Rights battles.
I do not respect politicians who use these documents for their own often greedy and vainglorious ends.
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All those things that you think highly of,
came about in America, and that is why I am proud
to be an American, and will always stand during
our national anthem!