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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Flag Waver Speaks Out
Message-ID: <554@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 7-Dec-83 18:05:45 EST
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.554
Posted: Wed Dec  7 18:05:45 1983
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Dec-83 07:58:36 EST
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Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Why do I have to feel stirred by my country's flag or national
anthem in order for you to believe that I have feelings for it?
Shouldn't a real love of country have more to do with caring
for its welfare and wanting to make it a better place than
with getting off on some often overused symbols?

I happen to think that the university where I study is a pretty
good place in some respects.  I've learned a lot here and I hope
that it remains a place of learning for some time to come.  Still,
I don't feel any particular urge to join in when supposed adults run
around by the thousands wearing ugly burnt orange clothes, hollering
"Hook 'em horns!" and saluting a man dressed up as a steer.

Do you see any resemblance?
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Prentiss Riddle
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