I'm flying my flag today.

[lpbk2713]

Not because I think I'm a better American than anyone else but because I remember the sacrifice made by so many young lives. I try not to think of the miserable weasel who occupies the White House now and what a mockery he made of military service.

Navy vet (65 - 69)

[Zuni]

1. Good for you and thank you for your service

Thank you DU vets.

[rwenos]

2. Damned Right

Me too.

It would be a GREAT mistake EVER to let the Pubbies have the flag.

I fly my flag every holiday. I have one on my car. I do it to honor my father, father in law, uncles, wife's uncle, and a second cousin who won a posthumous Silver Star after a firefight sank his sub, the USS Tang, in the Formosa Strait, in 1944.

Nobody asked any of them what their party was when they signed up.

[alittlelark]

3. I'm gonna do the same.

It's been 3 years....

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. I am trying to rationalize flying the flag again. I have not flown

one since the invasion. I remember the sacrifices very vidily, some early mornings I still can't wash the blood off my hands in my sleep. But, well... convince me. Give me reason to do it again.

okay?

[rwenos]

6. Because . . .

As much as the Bush Administration sucks, those proud men who suffered at Concord, Valley Forge, Antietam, Gettysburg, Flanders, Anzio, Normandy, Bastogne, Midway, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, over Hamburg and Berlin and Tokyo, at Inchon, Pork Chop Hill, Hue, Da Nang, over Hanoi, in the Hanoi Hilton, Kuwait City, Mogadishu, and even now in Iraq DID NOT HAVE TO GO.

They could have sat on their ass, safe in college, like I did in 1972 and 1973.

We can never, ever thank them enough.

Even if they are led by a moron pigfucker now.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

7. I went. I suffered. I am outraged at what our flag has to

represent right now.

I used to stop at flag poles all over the world and gaze up at them against the blue sky.

Other guys thought I was a nut, that was time to go out and get loaded, get laid... get lost.

I would look up at the flag sometimes for hours, dreaming the flag.

And that was at the low point in the 70's.

Now, it is so low for me, I have a real hard time with the Pledge of Allegiance AND the Star Spangled Banner. God Bless America makes me want to puke.

I understand your reasoning, and appreciate your thanks. But, I am still not there.

[lpbk2713]

13. I don't want to change the way you feel about it and

I respect your viewpoint. But it seems to me that what the flag represents is why I need to fly it. I can't let it be said that the flag represents them but rather represents all of us and all of our opinions too. It might sound a bit naive but that's the way I feel about it.

[ailsagirl]

5. Amen and thank you for your service

I was listening to Air America the other day and a veteran called in and before the guy started to talk, Ed Schultz interrupted him and said, "Thank you for your service." And the guy was silent for a second then said, "No one has ever said that to me before."

Which I thought was so damned sad-- each and every veteran deserves our unconditional gratitude for their bravery.

[sixfive]

8. Here is why you should

Because we need to take it back! Let's honor those who have served by restoring integrity to that great American symbol.

Another thing you can do for Vets Day is to tell people about the 1.7 Million veterans of all wars without the health insurance they were promised.

Let's take care of our flag and our vets!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

9. Well, that is a good arguement, and welcome to DU

1.7 is a conservative number, IMHO... it is more like 3 million

[saracat]

10. Fly it upside down because that is what we are , a nation in distress.

Those that fought and died did not do it for the kind of nation we are today, or, for what we are becoming. Bushworld bears little resemblance to the USA.

[Maddy McCall]

11. I'm flying mine too.

:thumbsup:

[Aunt Anti-bush]

12. I'm flying my flag today, too.

As a way of saluting people just like you. Thank you so very much for your service.

[dr.strangelove]

14. I am flying the flag that covered my father's coffin

He died in 2001. He was a Nam vet. I proudly fly that flag to honor him and those the served with him.

I fly it to honor those fighting overseas today and all those who served, and those who continue to serve, our nation.

I fly it to say thank you.