"Fran" <franbarlow@mail.com> wrote in message
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> "Randy Cox" <randd49@airmail.net> wrote in message
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>
> Names, symbols and signs are empty vessels, into which pretty much
> anything can be poured. Sometimes, people with strong ideas choose
> symbols that refelct those ideas, and sometimes people who want other
> people to think they have strong ideas, wrap themselves in the words
> and the symbols.
>
> What matters are people's actions, the way they relate to others, what
> they demand of others and the obligations and burdens they accept
> themselves. These things tell us what we need to know about people and
> institutions, rather than the words and symbols they choose.
>
> In the end it doesn't matter whether you hold up Old Glory or the Red
> Flag with the Hammer and Sickle, or burn them.
>
> What I want to know is "What's your idea of evil and injustice in the
> world?" "What would you have done to abate this evil?" "Who should
> participate in making a better world, and how will you encourage
> this?"
>
> Honest answers to these questions are far more important.
>
> FRAN

The thing I can't understand is how the American people can ask it's sons
and daughters to stand ready to give up their right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness in defense of the country. But, once they have done so,
deny the simple request millions of them have that the symbol that
represented what they were willing to die for, be protected. An almost
inconsequential act of defiance being prohibited in honor of the ultimate
sacrifice. Is that too much to ask?


--
A lot of little boys never grow up.
They just change the name of
their game from "Cowboys and
Indians" to "Democrats and Republicans"


Brooks Gregory