snopes.com is a wonderful place to find information that you need and didn't know you need. which is why i have the rss feed on my homepage. the writing and information are top notch and this morning i found a new page. it starts with:
"One of the signs of creeping old fogeyism is finding out how many of the irrefutable truths we learned as youths turned out to be false." what a great sentence! i love it. finish reading the at http://www.snopes.com/holidays/flagday/burnflag.asp.
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I must admit I was one of the people that learned this in gradeschool. I always was at a loss to explain the contraditiction of burning the flag should be done when it touches the ground (it happens all the time) and burning the flag is also a sign of disrespect.
so make up your minds folks. is burning proper or improper. both sides can't use the same symbol.
I also found it interesting that burrying the flag was not mentioned. to me this would be another (more complex) method of respect, but if we did this, would it need a tomb stone?
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