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Originally posted by Snakeeye@Mar 27 2005, 09:25 PM
As an offshoot of this topic, when I was in Seattle two summers ago, I found myself in a rather upscale, beachfront neighborhood across the bay from Seattle Harbour as I was looking for a good shot of downtown. In that neighborhood especially (and in many other communities I've seen in the states) virtually every single house had an American Flag hanging from the front of their houses.
Personally, I couldnt help but to laugh to myself, as it did not come off as being truely patriotic, but rather an entire neighborhood looking at their neighbor and thinking "I had better fly the flag or I will look out of place." It struck me as being false patriotism.
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So cynical :P
Actually you will find that in many neighborhoods in cities all across the US.
Especially 2 summers ago.
But even now, some neighborhoods will have nearly all the homes flying a flag for a soldier that is from the neighborhood but currently deployed overseas. No matter whether the occupants of the homes are supporters of the war in Iraq or not, they are supporters of their former neighbor and will fly a flag in his honor.
Another thing we Americans seem to do, around here anyway, is tie yellow ribbons around trees and whatever else is handy to support the troops we have overseas.