08-23-2017, 11:47 AM
(08-22-2017, 07:24 PM)Nately120 Wrote: I've been pretty fascinated by people's reaction to this more than anything. It's just my personal belief, but I feel like we spend too much time worrying about respecting "the flag" and not enough time respecting the actual land, air, water, and people that make up this country. You never see someone tell a guy who just threw his Bic Mac wrapper or a cigarette butt on the ground to pick it up because veterans fought for this country and that's disrespectful. Did people fight for this country or fight for the flag? Is that why it's a slap in the face to veterans if you burn the flag but no one worries about the veterans' feelings when we poison the water or air? I know, hippie stuff. Save the earth and all that crap.
Best response in this entire thread. Kneeling for the pledge/anthem does not effect me. If people in this country cared as much about the land itself, and the people inside of it, the people who serve it (like actually cared not saying so and putting a bumper sticker on your car) as they do some idealistic materialization of patriotism and symbolism then we would be much better off.
Be PROUD of your country by taking care of it, not the *idea* of it.
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