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Originally Posted by Evil3
I would never fight for the flag, as I would fight for the country.
To me the flag is a symbol of the past of our country, and what it took for the American people to give us this freedom, and to keep us free. So I guess that for me it makes it a memorial (sp?) of what it takes to be free.
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that's an interesting view...
to me the flag is a symbol of the past (a memorial, yes) the present (who we are today) and the future. To me, if the flag is just a thing of the past, then it has no future, and our ideas and principles from which the past was based wouldn't have a future either.