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From: jab@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Flag Waver Speaks Out - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 11-Dec-83 23:04:21 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 11 23:04:21 1983
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uokvax!jab    Dec 10 16:22:00 1983

/***** uokvax:net.flame / ut-sally!riddle /  7:46 am  Dec  8, 1983 */
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?

---

Yes! I wonder how much this country is like the one founded two hundred
years ago, though. There was a lot more "patriotism", because you had only
a couple of choices --- allegiance to the king or to the flag. There was a
lot more discrimination, though, and no technology to speak of. 

I tire of these people who wave flags and ignore what they symbolize. I don't
know that THAT is what gave us Watergate, Vietnam, and Three-Mile-Island, but
it didn't help. (There! Did that get everything from the past decade or so?)


	Jeff Bowles
	Lisle, IL