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Originally Posted by Number 10 GI
I served in the Army for almost 21 years supporting that flag and what it stands for. Too many good people, friends and fellow veterans, have died for that flag and any mention or act of disrespecting it makes my blood boil. If YOU don't like the way our flag looks take your sorry behind out of this country and find one that doesn't care about it's national flag.
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I'm just not a flag person. Perhaps it's my Jewish upbringing. But we were indoctrinated as children to never worship "things." I don't pay respects to flags, or any other inanimate object. I don't kneel to pray, I didn't kneel when I got married, we don't kneel in synagogue except when we invoke the Lord's name in a very specific invocation. And we don't worship or revere things.
I love my country. The flag, I'm just ambivalent about. Seeing tons of flags flying doesn't stir me to patriotism, and seeing them missing doesn't make me feel any less love for the USA. I don't need a flag of ANY kind to love America.