re: I'm calling out all Saints who sit with a question.

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How many of our fellow countrymen have given their lives or children to create protect and defend that flag? You disrespect the flag you disrespect them. Find another way to show frustration, or god forbid actually do something that would make a difference. But don't disrespect that flag.

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I fully support those who serve in the military and see action of some sort. Hell, I fully support those in the military who served their entire hitch at a base in the States. But no veteran I've ever known has ever told me that he enlisted and served to protect and defend a flag. If that were the case, one would assume that the oath of enlistment (and, coincidentally, the oath of office for nationally elected politicians such as President) would call for the oath taker to swear to defend the flag, rather than to "...solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic..."

I mean, frankly speaking and with all due respect, anyone who risks his life defending a piece of cloth rather than the principals and concepts (such as the Constitution and Bill of Rights/Amendments lay out) that the piece of cloth represents is kind of a moron. I should have expressed that more delicately, I'm sure, but I stand by the thrust of the argument. The right to freedom of expression, accepting that others also have the right to express thoughts in opposition to those of our own, is perhaps the most essential and deeply-held belief of our Founding Fathers and principle that the flag represents.