[KenWittlief]

wow Mike! you really nailed it!

Its not the cloth or the colors, its what the flag represents, our country, its history and everyone who lives here. Stand in public and tell the world how much you hate America and you are no friend of mine either.

I had two flags. One was a Nazi submarine flag, about 8 feet long that my father brought home from Germany. He was in Patton's 3rd army, and fought in the battle of the bulge. I inherited it when he died. After having it for a few years I really didn't want it in my home. I hated what it stood for. I hated the crimes what were committed under the Nazi flag. I think it would have been valuable to a collector, and I thought of selling it, but I did not want it to end up in the hands of some neo-nazi as his new prized possession. For the last 18 years it has been rotting at the bottom of a landfill somewhere in Iowa. I threw it out with the trash.

Now I only own one flag. The one that covered by fathers coffin at his funeral. I fly it proudly over my home on July 4th and on memorial day. If anyone tries to burn that flag they will be leaving my house in an ambulance.

(my 3000th post on CD! Cool)