Subject: Re: It's time to ban flag burning
Unfortunately, Dope has been trying every way but Sunday to get someone to say something that will give him the excuse to claim “Libs are for burning the American flag while wanting to criminalize burning Pride flags.”

Equating the American Flag to that of a Pride Flag?

Give me a break.

Anyone dishonoring the American Flag in any which way or form is dirt under my feet. Period.
Members of my family have fought and died for what the American Flag stands for.
Members of my family are serving now, two being West Point graduates.

A POW during WW II scavenged for bits of material so to make an American Flag..that is what patriotism is all about, pride in America and the American Flag.
SNIP
“While struggling to survive in the camp he worked with a Canadian POW, who had lost both legs in the war, to fashion an American flag to symbolize his patriotism. Quintero hid it below the floorboard of his bed.

A U.S. flag, made by an American survivor of Corregidor from scraps of jeans and colored blankets in a POW camp in Japan, was turned over on Sept 8 to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., where it will become part of its collection of military artifacts.”

Anyone burning the American Flag for a political protest because it’s his right to freedom of speech is dirt under my feet. Period.

The Pride Flag? Pride flags represent various sexual orientations, nothing more.

EOM!