think most people can agree the cheesy ridiculous flag at the end was over the top. but i've noticed all the americans getting very defensive. surely you as an american can see why it was a stupid scene?
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Yes, I can. Cheesy in this instance, for sure. But IRL, I can also understand being very protective of the flag and cherishing the ideals it stands for. Mocking it is an intensely personal insult, viewed as highly disrespectful by many. Mocking the high regard with which the flag is held, likewise. Reverence for the flag and the country it symbolizes may seem very old fashioned; I'm a 50 year old woman, maybe I am old fashioned, too. I'm not someone who believes my country, right or wrong, or who cant see the many problems and issues this country must face. We're not perfect. Neither are our leaders, or their policies. 350,000,000 million of us can't always be right. And, we don't always agree. But the flag isnt about perfection, or being in perfect agreement, t's about ideals much bigger than that. Many members of my family have served the US in uniform under that flag and done so voluntarily vs being conscripted or mandated to do so. The flag is highly regarded by them and because it is by them, it is by me, too. I have visited family graves of war dead from many wars since 1812 here. On two continents, in 9 cemeteries, including big ones like Gettysburg and Arlington and in Ipres and Mons where they died overseas, I've laid flags on those graves myself. I'm an atheist, extremely liberal and have never served in uniform myself. But I value their service and honor their memory. Part of honoring their memory is valuing what they loved. My 97 year old grandfather, a veteran of WWII who fought in the Phillipines and Japan and again in Korea, was buried with his flag patches from his old uniforms. There was a flag draped over his coffin before he was buried; it was given to my mother and she gave it to me. I now display it in a glass case in my home.
shareDid you notice the U.N. Flag? Now that was cheesy...through numerous natural and other disasters, that flag and the aid it represents has never been offered to America.
We've been on our own since conception, England(mom) always fighting with Europe(dad), and the f@cking in laws are clueless!
This whole thread is ridiculous. Whenever there's a tragedy in the U.S., the flag is waved. That's just the way it is. That was probably the only remotely realistic scene in the whole film.
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