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How many Flags are flying for vets

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:12 pm
by xtratabasco
Besides the schools, post office, government buildings and car dealerships, what percentage of flags are flying for the vets or wars where you live and work, and please be honest.
In my neighborhood of about 70 homes there is 1 small flag on a mailbox that will be removed by tonight, im sure.
Where I work there is over 1000 homes and there was about 30 flags out.
after 911 there was about 700 flags.
I dont think this is do to anti-vets, I believe it is anti-Iraq/Middle East Invasion and Empire Building

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:14 pm
by Anarkistsdream
I'd say about 75% of businesses and about 15% of homes.
And, of course, as you stated, all government buildings.

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:20 pm
by unriggable
I live in the city. I can't tell.

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:22 pm
by Wild_Tiger
im not american =p

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:22 pm
by muy_thaiguy
A good portion here, a lot of retired folks and vets live here.

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:26 pm
by unriggable
muy_thaiguy wrote:A good portion here, a lot of retired folks and vets live here.
They must support the war machine (because that's what vets day is all about, right)

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:30 pm
by Iz Man
Old glory flies at my house, on all the telephone poles thru town, and on 90+% of the houses here.
You must live a sheltered life...... sad......

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:37 pm
by xtratabasco
unriggable wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:A good portion here, a lot of retired folks and vets live here.
They must support the war machine (because that's what vets day is all about, right)
you would be surprised at all the vet groups against the war machine.

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:38 pm
by xtratabasco
Iz Man wrote:Old glory flies at my house, on all the telephone poles thru town, and on 90+% of the houses here.
You must live a sheltered life...... sad......
what are you talking about?
after 911 our town was about 90% flags, now less than 5%
It isnt sheltered, its people waking up to the facts that this government is out of control and using its men and women in the military for Empire Building

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:52 pm
by unriggable
xtratabasco wrote:Iz Man wrote:Old glory flies at my house, on all the telephone poles thru town, and on 90+% of the houses here.
You must live a sheltered life...... sad......
what are you talking about?
after 911 our town was about 90% flags, now less than 5%
It isnt sheltered, its people waking up to the facts that this government is out of control and using its men and women in the military for Empire Building
Meanwhile we have Marshall Applewhite here telling us to wake up and smell the roses right?

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:54 pm
by cena-rules
none our vets dont have a day. They only save animals

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:55 pm
by Iz Man
xtratabasco wrote:Iz Man wrote:Old glory flies at my house, on all the telephone poles thru town, and on 90+% of the houses here.
You must live a sheltered life...... sad......
what are you talking about?
after 911 our town was about 90% flags, now less than 5%
Maybe in your little rabbit-hole corner of the world.....

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:02 pm
by xtratabasco
Iz Man wrote:xtratabasco wrote:Iz Man wrote:Old glory flies at my house, on all the telephone poles thru town, and on 90+% of the houses here.
You must live a sheltered life...... sad......
what are you talking about?
after 911 our town was about 90% flags, now less than 5%
Maybe in your little rabbit-hole corner of the world.....
you just keepon waving the flag and dancing the dance tell the boat sinks.


Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:47 pm
by Balsiefen
Well, up to Nov 11th the entire UK was covered in people wearing poppies but no flags. Here its more about preventing a world war happening again rather than anything else.

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:51 pm
by xtratabasco
Balsiefen wrote:Well, up to Nov 11th the entire UK was covered in people wearing poppies but no flags. Here its more about preventing a world war happening again rather than anything else.
well the Downing Streets Memo sure blows that away.
or is the UK not considered part of Great Britan when it comes to that?

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:56 pm
by Napoleon Ier
If you wave a flag in continental Europe (except the European one, a beautiful, admirable flag, the institustion it represents hardly does it justice), you're a xenophobic facho from the extreme right.
America is repeatedly lambasted by pseudo-intellectual leftists, but at least the people of the US are proud of who they are and what they stand for.
The Usurper Pàl Sarközy de Nagy Bocsà delivered a revolting address in which, spouting francophobic and unpatriotic venom, he proclaimed his fetish for the the macabre totalitarian EU, using those who died for the Fatherland as an excuse.
Disgusting. The General would be turning in his grave.
Mon Général où êtes vous? Ils sont devenus fous!

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:00 pm
by Guiscard

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:01 pm
by PinkyAndTheBrain
unriggable wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:A good portion here, a lot of retired folks and vets live here.
They must support the war machine (because that's what vets day is all about, right)
Actually it's about remembering the sacrifices of all veterans.

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:03 pm
by Napoleon Ier
I do not find the fact that the merdias have brainwashed you into a good slave of the system funny. Nor do I find the death sentence on the great European Nations and their cultural, racial and religious identities funny.

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:03 pm
by Anarkistsdream
PinkyAndTheBrain wrote:unriggable wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:A good portion here, a lot of retired folks and vets live here.
They must support the war machine (because that's what vets day is all about, right)
Actually it's about remembering the sacrifices of all veterans.
He was being sarcastic, studmuffin.


Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:10 pm
by xtratabasco

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:12 pm
by Napoleon Ier
et tu, xtratabasco?
I thought you would defend the rights of Nations to idependance and honour the spirit of Patriotism.


Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:13 pm
by Guiscard
Napoleon Ier wrote:I do not find the fact that the merdias have brainwashed you into a good slave of the system funny. Nor do I find the death sentence on the great European Nations and their cultural, racial and religious identities funny.
I find the fact that you actually
believe all the shit you very lucidly spout. You sound like a far-right nationalist French Russel Brand.

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:13 pm
by xtratabasco
Napoleon Ier wrote:et tu, xtratabasco?
I thought you would defend the rights of Nations to idependance and honour the spirit of Patriotism.

so you do or do not like being spat on ie. Downing Street Memos

Posted:
Mon Nov 12, 2007 3:15 pm
by PinkyAndTheBrain
Anarkistsdream wrote:PinkyAndTheBrain wrote:unriggable wrote:muy_thaiguy wrote:A good portion here, a lot of retired folks and vets live here.
They must support the war machine (because that's what vets day is all about, right)
Actually it's about remembering the sacrifices of all veterans.
He was being sarcastic, studmuffin.

Ok. I haven't read enough of his posts to know.