My wet blanket for Memorial Day.

[Zundfolge]

So I was talking to one of my neighbors who noticed that I didn't have my flag flying this Memorial Day ... I changed the subject.


Back in the late 80s my hippie/commie uncle was an aid to some leftard schmuck congressman from Oklahoma. As a congressman's aid he was in charge of sending gifts and other wastes of the taxpayers dollars to donors and leftard muckity-mucks. One of the ways our government wastes money is they buy very well made and expensive Valley Forge flags by the train car load, fly them over the capital for a single day and box the flags up with certificates of authenticity to hand out like candy.

Many years ago my uncle gave me one of these flags as a birthday gift. I've flow it proudly for years and frankly it was much nicer than the ones you buy at Walmart (they aren't printed, they're sewn together strips of red and white heavy cotton with a piece of blue with embroidered stars on it. Very nice quality).

Well, on election night 2012, when it was clear that America had good and truly committed suicide I burned that flag in my fire pit and buried the ashes in the corner of the yard. I vowed not to fly the flag of the United States of America again until either the people turn this country around and get it back under the constitution or after the coming war if we are able to establish a new Republic under the Constitution of the old one I'll fly THAT flag.

So anyway, celebrating Memorial Day (or July 4th for that matter) has become a bitter pill for me. Let me say from the get-go that I absolutely believe that the sacrifices of generations of Soldiers, Sailors, Marines and Airmen deserve to be honored and remembered ... the problem is that I no longer see those sacrifices as being "to preserve the liberty and way of life we enjoy here in America" because I don't believe they have (they may have been intended to, but that's just not how things have turned out).

The simple fact is that even if we're able to get the current crop of corrupt politicians out of power and replace them with lovers of the Constitution, history and traditions of the United States of America as it was originally designed, I don't see how we can dismantle the Utopian Statist Leviathan that the federal (and for the most part state) governments have become (in large part because the American people have become as corrupt as any Marxist community organizer turned Chicago thug politician turned President).

The last few years on Memorial Day I think I can understand how the German or Italian or Japanese people must feel when remembering their war dead from WWII ... their fellow citizens fought and died and LOST.

Anyway, I offer my prayers of thanks and admiration for those that have selflessly given their lives for the sake of a corrupt people ... and I offer prayers of contrition to the All Mighty on behalf of a nation who have squandered the gift of liberty he bestowed upon us over two centuries ago (and a tiny prayer of thanks for the fine folk of Loretto, KY for helping me get to sleep tonite after all that).

[Great-Kazoo]

So you burned The Flag in Protest, or did i read that wrong?

I had a fight with my wife a few years back. I didn't slap the shit out of our daughter.



Note to self, block Zun who folded

[Guylee]

So you burned The Flag in Protest, or did i read that wrong?

I had a fight with my wife a few years back. I didn't slap the shit out of our daughter.

Well put. I hope you at least burned it correctly.

Note to self, block Zun who folded

Well put. I hope you at least burned it correctly.

[Aloha_Shooter]

He did say he burned it in his fire pit and I assume he did it reverentially so he did it right. I personally would have put the flag in the closet until the country was restored but I can understand why he did what he did.

[ray1970]

I can understand why he did what he did.

Yep. I always felt burning the flag was disrespectful to our great nation but lately I'm not so sure it deserves the respect it once did.

[ray1970]

The nation, that is. Not the flag.

[ZERO THEORY]

Why not fly it at half mast or upside down if you wanted to make a statement with it? I think that evokes a much stronger message than privately burning it. Burning it implies you want the infrastructure and ideals it represents to be toppled.

[brokenscout]

I understand, mine are all packed up can't bring myself to burn them, but I inderstand

[Great-Kazoo]

What's that saying, i'm sure some of us remember?


“My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

[Zundfolge]

So you burned The Flag in Protest, or did i read that wrong?

Yeah, you read that wrong.

I didn't burn the flag in protest, I properly disposed of a flag no longer fit to fly.

I had a fight with my wife a few years back. I didn't slap the shit out of our daughter.

I don't think your analogy fits. A more apt one would be that you had a fight with your wife because she started screwing other people and joined a death cult so you hid your daughter from her for her own protection.

Burning it implies you want the infrastructure and ideals it represents to be toppled.

I want the infrastructure and ideals it has COME to represent to be toppled. Those ideals and infrastructure have killed off the ideas and infrastructure that it was built upon.