good point. it seems like everybody has to be in everybody's business too. why the hell do we have to give any attention to somebody who wants to take a knee. if you are a good cop or a vet and it offends you then do your own protest but does everybody need to make it a national crisis? remember when you were young and somebody was being ignorant or rude and your parents said "ignore them, they'll get bored and give up". if you don't give something attention it usually runs out of air. fan the flame and it grows.
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Actually, when I was young neighbors had no problem correcting any kid that was doing wrong in their presence. The attitude of, "Don't correct my child" was non-existent in the neighborhood. At least in my little part of Cumberland.
You're seriously idolizing a cloth. That's the sad part about it..
Systemic racism by police is statistically not the reality. Barry O’s own DOJ reports confirmed that. A few bad apples in LE don’t represent the whole bunch. This is disingenuous and dare I say a tad prejudiced in its own right, but if they want to kneel and do nothing else at all, whatever. Let them feel empowered. Lot of good it will do them though.
It doesn't matter what that guy thinks. Fact,
its a piece of cloth. Whether or not you or the guy that took "mount suribachi agrees doesn't change that fact. If you want to reverence and make something that is a piece of material your idol go ahead. Not everyone idolizes objects..
Some things are senseless to discuss: one person would see a grave stone as just a rock, kick it over or deface it - another would put a flag at a grave stone in Arlington.
Not the cloth, but what it represents. If you really think it's sad, you don't deserve it.
That's the problem. It's counterproductive to their cause. They're either too naive or have ulterior motives.
What does a piece of cloth represent? It has no life. It cannot move nor speak. What it represents to you is subjective. It may not mean the same to someone else. You cannot force your belief in an idol onto someone else who doesn't believe it means the same thing as you do. As far as me "not deserving it", quiet honestly I'm not a flag humper so you can have it. I've long gave up reverencing objects. To me it's foolishness.
I made a mistake in assuming certain people know where Mount Suribachi is and what its significance represents.....my bad but the responses explain a lot.
Are you saying that the only reason they took the mountain was because of the flag?
The answer to your question lies here if you're so interested..
https://www.nps.gov/gwmp/learn/historyculture/usmcwarmemorial.htm
So you couldn't answer the question. That's not good for your argument.
Lol! So you are going to use a symbol to define another symbol? Ok.... lol.
Also, by your logic, no one in Vietnam, or the rest of world war II was fighting for the flag because they dont have it in their memorial. So, really, kneeling only disrespects the 4 people who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, or like 0.000000004% of all the people who have ever served in the US military.
I recommend Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley: a rare chronicle of sacrifice for things understood intrinsically or not at all.
