At first glance, this picture of some people in Switzerland burning an American flag pisses me off, but then I realize I'm not that pissed...the reason? The flag is a symbol and a piece of cloth, which is flammable and will burn when touched with fire, but they can NEVER burn what we have...that intangible, that sense of freedom. They can burn all the flags they want, but it doesn't lessen what we have in this country. Where even the moron's speech is as sacred as the scholar's speech, where those on both sides of an issue are both right and wrong, where we can watch 500 channels of nothing on, yet everything is on.
What we have can never be summed up but some dyed cloth, rather, it's what's in our hearts and our heads. My father didn't fight for a piece of cloth, he fought for an ideal. My gandfather was the same way. So are the millions of soldiers out there fighting for that ideal. I don't agree 100% with everything we do with our military, but I respect the men and women who are sworn to uphold that ideal.
Patriotism is not about waving a flag (that was probably sewn in China anyways) it's about keep that ideal alive in doing what we do....it's about respecting what we have and respecting what others have...it's not about a piece of cloth, it's about something that can never be taken out of the intangible and something that those who can't appreciate it, never will appreciate it. Fuck them!
Last edited by SykkBoy at Mar 23 2003, 03:20 PM