Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Not going to go there, Sonny -;-) I should add that for years every 4th of July and Memorial Day I hung from the front of the house in which I lived the 6 foot, 46 star American flag my maternal grandparents had been given as a wedding present. But I stopped doing so when displaying the flag became shorthand for "I'm patriotic - what's a matta wid you?" On 9/4/05 1:59 PM, "SonC@aol.com" <SonC@aol.com> wrote: > > > In a message dated 9/4/2005 11:52:40 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > bdcolen@comcast.net writes: > > More to the point - If we live in America, and are Americans, why do we > have > to fly flags or plaster flag stickers on our cars to tell people that > we're > Americans? The flag has, unfortunately, become a political symbol. > > -------------------------- > > > Yeah, and isn't it ironic that the people who fly it most proudly are in > the > South? > > > > Regards, > Sonny > (who proudly flies the star spangled banner on a pole in front of my > house) > > http://www.sonc.com > Natchitoches, Louisiana > Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane > ?galit?, libert?, crawfish > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information