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Originally Posted by directfiesta
They fought and died for a cause, for beliefs, not for a piece of cloth that basically serves to identify groups ....
If a kid is on fire and a flag is on fire, same place, same time, what do you extingish first ?
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They died for the cause, and beliefs the flag represents and they died while serving under the flag. The flag identifies the cause and beliefs...not just a group.
I served under the flag for 12 years and put my life on the line multiple times for the cause and beliefs the flag represents. I have had friends die while serving under the flag and the cause and the beliefs the flag represents. I myself am physically disabled from serving under the flag and the cause and beliefs the flag represents and I do not have any regrets.
If someone exercises their freedom of "speech" in the form of desecrating the flag in my presence...I will excercise my free will...to the point that it will be over my dead body, or theirs. I will not tolerate it...period.