That is a tragedy, it really irritates me how much it has been used to justify. I am also quite confident I'd feel this way if my political standings were the opposite of what they are.
DDDc said:
But I also look at how amazing it was that everyone all of a sudden came together. I never saw so many American flags being flown.
Now it's kind of amazing at how few American flags are being flown. It really does seem like a lot of people have forgotten or don't really seem to care much anymore.
Actually I must say that aside from special dates (and today there were more flags than normal) I think it is
right that people pulled their flags. When the flag is seen from every angle possible every day it's meaning becomes dilluted. When the frequency of flag spottings comes up on special dates it makes it that much more special (as opposed to if just about all vehicles were still sporting flags like five years ago.)
I will say that I never did join everybody else and put flags over everything I owned becuase even at the time I viewed the amount of "flagging" to be excessive and at risk of dilluting their meaning. I saw it so much that it became appearent that it had ceased to be a special meaning and become the thing to do at the moment.
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