http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027611780This thread pissed me off and I forgot to add the link. Edited to add.
Star Member Baitball Blogger (22,615 posts)
Has anyone sighted pickup trucks flying POW/MIA flags alongside of the American flag?
Saw one driving on the road with fresh flags and I wondered if it was a statement on the Bundy situation. Lots of sovereigntist around here, so it would not surprise me.
Lochloosa (9,782 posts)
1. Pretty common in the South for years
Star Member Human101948 (1,786 posts)
2. That's nothing new...
I've seen those dumbass flag flown ever since 1971...
THE STORY BEHIND THE POW/MIA FLAG
It memorializes Americans as the preeminent victims of the Vietnam War, a notion seared into the nation’s visual unconscious by the Oscar-nominated 1978 film The Deer Hunter, which depicts acts of sadism, which were documented to have been carried out by our South Vietnamese allies, as acts committed by our North Vietnamese enemies, including the famous scene pictured on The Deer Hunter poster: a pistol pointed at the American prisoner’s head at exactly the same angle of the gun in the famous photograph of the summary execution in the middle of the street of an alleged Communist spy by a South Vietnamese official.
By then, the league and its flag had become the Pentagon’s own Frankenstein’s monster. You can read about the mess that resulted in the definitive book on the subject: Until the Last Man Comes Home: POWs, MIAs, and the Unending Vietnam War by Northwestern University’s Michael J. Allen.
Allen describes how Vietnam’s “refusal†to “account for†a thousand phantoms became an impediment to reconciliation and diplomatic recognition between the two nations. (How bizarre, how insulting, how counterproductive this must have been to a nation that must have suffered missing corpses in the thousands upon thousands?)
http://www.newsweek.com/its-time-haul-down-another-flag-racist-hate-361929
Here is a hint for you DUmmie Lochloosa. You try and TOUCH my flags, on my truck, or on my motorcycle, and you'll be met with a fury you've never seen. You will get 13 warning in .40 to stay the f*ck away.
I'm a patriotic American who revers the flag, and will NEVER forget the POW/MIA's. F*ck with my flags, you f*ck with me, AND my patriotic biker friends. Your safe space, don't offend me self will wish you NEVER did that.
That is not a threat.
THAT is a promise.
This is my bike, decked out for the patriot guard ride for Skip Wells. Who was he you ask? He was one of the Marines murdered by a muslim terrorist in Chattanooga, Tennessee. You know, the muslims you so vehemently defend.
I hugged his mother in the funeral home. She thanked me for what WE do, I thanked her for having strength. Yes, I cried.
There it is, come find it, and come f*ck with it.
Liberals disgust me.
