A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

[Sandman]

Originally posted by Frogm4n
im sure you fly it rain or shine, disrespecting it and the people that died for it.

Anyone that dies for the flag is missing the point.

[Frogm4n]

yea, your goal is to get the other guy to die for his country.
My grandfather and all his brothers were in WW2 and if you give any of them a gun and stick them in front of the white house they would shoot the president. Using vets as an excuse for war is silly, they are just as divided as we are about it.

[Jester]

To the old Gentleman weather he be a Veteran or not. At least he knows how to respect our flag and what it stands for. IMO something seriously lacking today.

For good or bad it is our Country and everything you have today and all the freedoms you have are owed to people who faught and died in many hellholes around the World because they believed in what it stands for. (many foreign countries also owe their freedoms to it though they don't like to admitt it at times.)

Be thankful, you could live in Iran and be sentanced to death for drinking a brewskie or a glass of wine. Think about all you really have before you go into "squeak & Moan" mode.

to Texace also! I feel exactly the same.

[Saurdaukar]

Originally posted by muckmaw
It's threads like this that make me ashamed to be American.

You people see a chance to rip into a patriot, and give it every thing you've got.

What the hell do you know about what this man did? Nothing. Nor do I.

But have we've become so cynical, that any opportunity to spit on what is obviously meant to be a patriotic image is seized upon with great zeal.

Maybe this guy had polio. Maybe he never fought in any war. It's not the man in the picture. It's the Men he represents in the photo.

He represents people you probably passed on the street, not even greeting them. You walk with your head down, and pass right by.

How many of you have sat down and talked to a WWII veteran. I have. I see them every week. Men like Preston Kodek, who flew an F6F in the Pacific, and watched 3 of his best friends die in combat. Men like Robert Bauman, a B-17 pilot, shot down over Belgium on his 5th mission, only to spend the next 2 years as a prisoner of War. 6 of his crew killed.

These and many more are the men this fellow represents.

Without men like him, you would not even have a message board to bash him.

So next time you see a veteran, why don't you put your liberal agenda in check for a minute, and say "Thank you."

They fu*ckin' deserve at least that.

:::Crosses another MAW off the "to kill" list:::

[OIO]

hmmm