As they say in the Bud ads.....True

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What the American Flag Stands For
by Charlotte Aldebron

The American flag stands for the fact that cloth can be very important. It is against the law to let the flag touch the ground or to leave the flag flying when the weather is bad. The flag has to be treated with respect. You can tell just how important this cloth is because when you compare it to people, it gets much better treatment. Nobody cares if a homeless person touches the ground. A homeless person can lie all over the ground all night long without anyone picking him up, folding him neatly and sheltering him from the rain.
School children have to pledge loyalty to this piece of cloth every morning. No one has to pledge loyalty to justice and equality and human decency. No one has to promise that people will get a fair wage, or enough food to eat, or affordable medicine, or clean water, or air free of harmful chemicals. But we all have to promise to love a rectangle of red, white, and blue cloth.
Betsy Ross would be quite surprised to see how successful her creation has become. But Thomas Jefferson would be disappointed to see how little of the flag's real meaning remains.

Charlotte Aldebron, 12, wrote this essay for a competition in her 6th grade English class. She attends Cunningham Middle School in Presque Isle, Maine. Comments may be sent to her mom, Jillian Aldebron: [email protected]

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Originally posted by Cal What the American Flag Stands For by Charlotte Aldebron The American flag stands for the fact that cloth can be very important. It is against the law to let the flag touch the ground or to leave the flag flying when the weather is bad. The flag has to be treated with respect. You can tell just how important this cloth is because when you compare it to people, it gets much better treatment. Nobody cares if a homeless person touches the ground. A homeless person can lie all over the ground all night long without anyone picking him up, folding him neatly and sheltering him from the rain. School children have to pledge loyalty to this piece of cloth every morning. No one has to pledge loyalty to justice and equality and human decency. No one has to promise that people will get a fair wage, or enough food to eat, or affordable medicine, or clean water, or air free of harmful chemicals. But we all have to promise to love a rectangle of red, white, and blue cloth. Betsy Ross would be quite surprised to see how successful her creation has become. But Thomas Jefferson would be disappointed to see how little of the flag's real meaning remains. Charlotte Aldebron, 12, wrote this essay for a competition in her 6th grade English class. She attends Cunningham Middle School in Presque Isle, Maine. Comments may be sent to her mom, Jillian Aldebron: [email protected]

Innocence. It's touching, in all seriousness.

I'm sorry, but there's no way in hell a 12 year-old girl wrote that on her own. I think sending "comments to Mom," is actually sending "comments to author."

a mess you created.

Im sure this boy is so happy about his liberation



or how about this young woman who served the military for Halliburtons interests.


Im sure they are so proud of the reasons why she served in Iraq

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Last edited by Cyrus King on Apr-16-2004 at 05:56

maybe he is, maybe he isn't.
One thing is for sure children can be the most resilient humans on the planet.
Given time, oppurtunity and above all, love, children can shed just about any pain.

Children=hope
American>CyrusKing

Ayoye?!?!?!!!
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Originally posted by Cyrus King a mess you created. Im sure this boy is so happy about his liberation

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programm...ent/2058253.stm

I bet this girl hoped we would have gotten there sooner.

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The star witness against the government of Iraq hobbled into the room, her legs braced with clumsy metal callipers. "Anna" had been tortured two years ago. She is now four years old.

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Originally posted by NeoPhono http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programm...ent/2058253.stm I bet this girl hoped we would have gotten there sooner.

Oh snap. Cyrus, how bout trying to be a little less cynical?

I don't understand this perception of soldiers though.

"Thank them for willing to serve and fight"?!?!

Doesn't anybody realize that these people are basically the government's bitch until their contracts are up and they can't do shit to avoid anything?

In reality it's more like "Thank them for choosing to follow orders instead of choosing to be court-martialed and executed."

Yeah they are heroes for that

It's an all voluntary service.

Indentured sevitude. Okay, but still voluntary. Hence "willing to serve and fight."

soldiers in one way or another have preserved your right to exist somewhere , sometime whether you believe this or not is not important but just remember the world is a lot greater than your opinion.